[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fflmod fflmod@... wrote: What I want to know is how many sidhas were at the state fair or Trader Joe's instead of in Fairfield spreading their bliss. :) * * Ha! My first time experiencing both of these paradises today, and both were a very great joy indeed! I had never seen such a great fair with so many incredibly warm, loving, beautiful people (and of course cows, and goats, and sheep, and vegetables, etc.), and Trader Joe's -- wow. What an amazing place that is! So many interesting new foods. I hear they are thinking of opening one closer to home, in Coralville. In the meantime, Des Moines is definitely on my to-do list on a more regular basis :-)
[FairfieldLife] NOK vs. AAPL?
From the POV of an investor, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) might be in a position rather similar to that of Nokia (NYSE: NOK) little over 10 years ago: NOK http://tinyurl.com/3aqrwl6 AAPL http://tinyurl.com/3rgk8e5
[FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
I stand corrected. The figure should have been 16,108 wives. He must have one powerful guy to handle all those women. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote: Slight correction. That's 16,108 wives - eight principle wives and 16,100 wives rescued from the harem of Narakasura, a powerful asura. To manage them all is simple. Just manifest separate bodies for each of them, attend to them continually, grant their many wishes and overpower them with amorous affection. To accomplish this kind of simultaneity, you probably should consider engaging in the mantra that Shiva used to enter the rasa dance: om namo bhâgavate râsamandeleshâya svâhâ That is the manual. Enjoy your transformation bodies (nimanakaya-s). --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@ wrote: Wow, 14,108. Did he write any manuals specifically about managing women? ___ From: John jr_esq@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 6:21:51 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts Maybejust remember the blue guy is fond of dancing with many beautiful women at midnight on a full moon. He also is known to have married 14,108 women. So, you can learn how to manage women from him.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@ wrote: You can thank Curtis for this post. Yeah, blame the blues guy! Nice. Occasionally, blame the guy who write the headlines: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/19/succulent-racks-headline-pictur\ e_n_931539.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/19/succulent-racks-headline-pictu\ re_n_931539.html
[FairfieldLife] Definition of a suutra?
According to someone, from vaayu- and skanda-puraaNa:
alpAkSaram asandigdhaM sAra-vat vizvato-mukham
astobham anavadyaM ca sUtraM sUtra-vido viduH
The translation on that site seemed rather scarce.
Perhaps everyone might try to come up with
their own translation.
Vocabulary
alpaakSaram -- [my guess] smallsyllable(d): most probably a
bahuvriihi meaning 'having only a few syllables'
asaMdigdha mfn. not indistinct MBh. xii ; undoubted , unsuspected ,
certain Jain. (Pra1kr2it {-diddha}) ; Pat. ; ***(%{am}) ind. without any doubt
, certainly Pan5cat. Ma1rkP***
sAravat mfn. hard , solid , firm , strong , steadfast MBh. R. c. ; substantial
, nourishing (as food) Car. ; valuable , precious MBh. Ka1m. ; having pith or
sap , containing resin Sus3r. ;
anavadyamf(%{A4})n. irreproachable , faultless ; unobjectionable ;
(%{A}) f. N. of an Apsaras.
vizvatomukha [z = sh -- card] (%{-zva4to-}) mfn. facing all sides , one whose
face is turned everywhere RV. AV. MBh. c. ; (%{am}) ind , in every direction
BhP. ; m. N. of the sun MBh.
astobham -- prolly opposite of 'stobham'
stobha m. a chanted interjection in a Sa1man (such as %{hum} , %{ho} , %{oha}
c.) , hum , hurrah , hymn Br. S3rS. MBh. BhP. ; a partic. division of the
Sa1ma-veda (q.v.) ; torpor , paralysis = %{ceSTA-vighAta} Nalac. ; disrespect ,
contumely (= %{helana}) L.
NB. Because 'suutram' is a neuter gender word, thus having the
ending -m even in the nominative singular case, it's impossible
to say, whether some of those other forms ending in -m
are agreeing with 'suutram', or indeclinable (ind.), adverb
like forms. Totally up to anyone to decide which one is the
case...
So, a translation might start for instance like this:
Knowers of suutras (suutra-vidah) know (viduH) a suutra (to be, or
stuff) alpaakSaram, etc.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
Just occurred to me, are them real of fake?? :o
[FairfieldLife] The Light That Dances
I posted this yesterday morning, but it seems to have disappeared into the Black Hole Of Yahoo, so here goes again... It occurs to me that I should explain to those who have criticized me on occasion for derailing spiritual conversations on this forum with my irrelevancies about movies that I don't see them as irrelevant. Movies are very much a part of my spiritual sadhana. They were long before I met the Rama guy, but that kinda cemented things. As students, we used to go en masse to the movies with him, and then discuss them afterwards. In the same way that teachers from the Vedic era used metaphors from that era that their students could identify with -- cows, milk, cows, and cows -- Rama used the metaphor of movies in his teachings. He could somehow turn The Road Warrior into a dissertation on Buddhist ethics and the nobility of sacrifice. This may have had some influence, Bob, on my ability to see Cowboys Aliens as a similar dissertation. :-) Because we had seen many of these movies together, we developed a kind of weird spiritual shorthand with regard to them. If the guy wanted to talk about a certain aspect of the warrior mindset, he could just drop into one of his talks the appropriate line from a great warrior movie, and zap! we'd be in the mindstate of that scene. Remembering that moment in the movie somehow drew the power of that moment into the present. Same with comedies, when drawing laughter into the present, or with actual spiritual films like Gandhi. Assuming you've seen that movie, what mindset pops into your mind when you hear the line I know a way out of hell? Doesn't that whole scene and the impact of its timeless compasssion leap to your mind, and allow you to feel the emotional impact of it again? Spiritual shorthand. On another level, movies are for me the perfect metaphor for Maya because they don't even really move. They're nothing but a series of still images projected onto a screen so fast that our brains are tricked into perceiving the images as moving. But, if we suspend disbelief and immerse our selves in this illusion of motion, for a couple of hours we can move along with it, remarkably free from our selves. At least I can. I've seen a LOT of crappy movies, but I love that thrill of delight that accompanies the moment when I realize I'm watching a good one. The story or the characters or something about the cinematography *grabs* me, and it's like the cry of the parrots in Aldous Huxley's Island -- Attention! Here and now, boys! When that happens, something in me stops being me and starts participating in the movie by giving it as much as I can of my full attention, relaxing, and seeing where it takes me. Sometimes it takes me to a shinier, happier place, as Midnight In Paris recently did. Sometimes it takes me to a darker but more honest place, as watching The Whistleblower recently did (it's about human trafficking, and thus SO not light viewing). But if the dance of light on the screen takes me somewhere other than the place I was at before I watched it -- if, like Gil I leave the theater and realize that I've mentally moved to Paris, and am no longer in the Kansas of my normal, everyday mindset any more, Toto -- then I feel that I've gained something from the experience spiritually. YMMV. Some see movies as a way to divert themselves from the tedium of their lives. I see them as a way of reminding me that nothing about life is tedious.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: Just occurred to me, are them real or fake?? :o The answer to this koan was more easily realized on Spanish beaches. There the jiggle factor was the the big tell. Or, if the woman in question was reclining, whether them remained pointing stead- fastly towards the midheaven, or more gracefully went with the natural tendency of gravity. But all of this stuff Curtis is reporting from David Eagleman's book has me wondering how we tell whether *anything* we perceive is real or fake. If the mind has such an extraordinary ability to shape false data into what it believes is true, is anything we believe to be real really real? Naturally, this leads me to a discussion of a movie. This whole subject of What is real? reminded me of a 1974 SciFi classic made on a shoestring budget by John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon, then still in film school. If you haven't seen it, the necessary back story for this clip is that a bomb big enough to blow up an entire planet before it falls into the sun and causes a supernova that could endanger a to-be-colonized star system, mistakenly gets the order to detonate. This is problematic, because it's still stuck in the bomb bay. As far as the bomb knows, it's been given the order to detonate, thus fulfilling its purpose in life. The crew is trying to stop the bomb from exploding, and in desperation one of the crew decides to teach the bomb epistemology. AI bomb being taught epistemology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjGRySVyTDk The bomb's resulting epiphany: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9-Niv2Xh7w
[FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: Just occurred to me, are them real or fake?? :o The answer to this koan was more easily realized on Spanish beaches. There the jiggle factor was the the big tell. Or, if the woman in question was reclining, whether them remained pointing stead- fastly towards the midheaven, or more gracefully went with the natural tendency of gravity. Why Spanish (topless) beaches are better when dealing with this epistemological question: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgE0XNK-tDENR=1 Another instance in which the ability of the brain to be fooled (and tangentially related to the question of size when determining real vs. fake): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_hwMtG2xCsNR=1
[FairfieldLife] The Laws Of Nature Of Cafe Writing
1. Tip well. The waitress can either be your best friend, or your worst enemy. If you want to come back and write in this cafe again, it is far better to be perceived as an over-tipping American than a cheapskate Dutchman. Just sayin'. 2. If you truly want not to be noticed (and thus hit upon, for conversation or for other reasons), watch the Monty Python How Not To Be Seen sketch before going to the cafe. Pay attention. 3. If you open your computer and find yourself faced with a blank page (Hemingway's dreaded white bull) for longer than you expected, do not despair. Just write something...anything. The flow of writing hath its own rules, and knowing in advance what is going to come out is not one of them. 4. Alcohol should never be mistaken for inspiration. On the other hand, alcohol can often provide the lubricant that allows inspiration to flow. Once it's started flowing, stop drinking. Think K-Y...you really don't have to keep applying it every five minutes if you've got a good rhythm going for you. 5. Don't allow your intended audience to sit at your table unless it really helps you to imagine them there. One of the most useful techniques for getting one's self out of the way when writing is to not include any other selves in the process. 6. Never edit what you find yourself writing. That's what publishers pay non-writers to do; they're paying you to write. Division of labor, dudes. 7. Don't think about deadlines. If you really thought you were going to make yours, would you be in this cafe? On the other hand, if you just go with the here-and-now flow, here and now, and it *works*, you just might make the deadline anyway. Stranger things have happened. Kerouac really did write On The Road in one three-week marathon session. Sorta. 8. As with Bardic storytelling, a short period spent writing about a seeming non-sequitur may majorly pay off for you. At the time you originally wrote it, you thought it was procrastination. But later in the overall storytelling process, you find that you can't do without it, and that the non-sequitur provides you with the perfect ending to the story you thought it was a non-sequitur to. 9. Never invite your wife or husband or lover to sit with you as you write unless they're into cafe writing as well. If they are, don't ask to see what they wrote while watching you write. Never. You must trust me on this. 10. Pick a good cafe, one that seems to be full of people who are enjoying their lives, or at the very least seem to be enjoying these moments of their lives. If they aren't, you won't.
[FairfieldLife] A lot like spiritual Fairfield
The Greek Monasteries 'suspended in the air': http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/fast_track/9538533.stm
Re: [FairfieldLife] Definition of a suutra?
On Aug 21, 2011, at 3:12 AM, cardemaister wrote:
According to someone, from vaayu- and skanda-puraaNa:
alpAkSaram asandigdhaM sAra-vat vizvato-mukham
astobham anavadyaM ca sUtraM sUtra-vido viduH
The translation on that site seemed rather scarce.
Perhaps everyone might try to come up with
their own translation.
Vocabulary
alpaakSaram -- [my guess] smallsyllable(d): most probably a
bahuvriihi meaning 'having only a few syllables'
asaMdigdhamfn. not indistinct MBh. xii ; undoubted , unsuspected ,
certain Jain. (Pra1kr2it {-diddha}) ; Pat. ; ***(%{am}) ind. without any
doubt , certainly Pan5cat. Ma1rkP***
sAravat mfn. hard , solid , firm , strong , steadfast MBh. R. c. ;
substantial , nourishing (as food) Car. ; valuable , precious MBh. Ka1m. ;
having pith or sap , containing resin Sus3r. ;
anavadya mf(%{A4})n. irreproachable , faultless ; unobjectionable ;
(%{A}) f. N. of an Apsaras.
vizvatomukha [z = sh -- card] (%{-zva4to-}) mfn. facing all sides , one whose
face is turned everywhere RV. AV. MBh. c. ; (%{am}) ind , in every direction
BhP. ; m. N. of the sun MBh.
astobham -- prolly opposite of 'stobham'
stobham. a chanted interjection in a Sa1man (such as %{hum} , %{ho} ,
%{oha} c.) , hum , hurrah , hymn Br. S3rS. MBh. BhP. ; a partic. division of
the Sa1ma-veda (q.v.) ; torpor , paralysis = %{ceSTA-vighAta} Nalac. ;
disrespect , contumely (= %{helana}) L.
NB. Because 'suutram' is a neuter gender word, thus having the
ending -m even in the nominative singular case, it's impossible
to say, whether some of those other forms ending in -m
are agreeing with 'suutram', or indeclinable (ind.), adverb
like forms. Totally up to anyone to decide which one is the
case...
So, a translation might start for instance like this:
Knowers of suutras (suutra-vidah) know (viduH) a suutra (to be, or
stuff) alpaakSaram, etc.
A sUtra is a compilation of aphorisms that expresses the essence of all
knowledge in a minimum of words. It must be universally applicable to all the
faces of consciousness and faultless in its linguistic presentation.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger
On Aug 21, 2011, at 1:06 AM, fflmod wrote: I have not been in Fairfield in the last eleven years and so have not seen him in a while, but I can tell you the author of that letter used to listen to Rush Limbaugh on the radio every chance he got and used to go to the course office to complain that so-and-so was not doing his part to save the world by going to the dome regularly. What does that tell you? It was the Oxycontin talking? :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Definition of a suutra?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: A sUtra is a compilation of aphorisms that expresses the essence of all knowledge in a minimum of words. It must be universally applicable to all the faces of consciousness and faultless in its linguistic presentation. In one word, sutra is thus synonymous with fiction.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Light That Dances
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: I posted this yesterday morning, but it seems to have disappeared into the Black Hole Of Yahoo, so here goes again... Several of my posts yesterday also disappeared. If you're posting on the Web site and don't want to have to reconstruct, make a copy of what you wrote before hitting Send. Pain in the BUTT. It occurs to me that I should explain to those who have criticized me on occasion for derailing spiritual conversations on this forum with my irrelevancies about movies I don't recall anybody ever critizing you for doing this. that I don't see them as irrelevant. Movies are very much a part of my spiritual sadhana. They were long before I met the Rama guy, but that kinda cemented things. As students, we used to go en masse to the movies with him, and then discuss them afterwards. In the same way that teachers from the Vedic era used metaphors from that era that their students could identify with -- cows, milk, cows, and cows -- Rama used the metaphor of movies in his teachings. He could somehow turn The Road Warrior into a dissertation on Buddhist ethics and the nobility of sacrifice. Cinema Nirvana: Enlightenment Lessons from the Movies, by Dean Sluyter: Movie fans and spiritual seekers, unite! In Cinema Nirvana, meditation teacher and award-winning film critic Dean Sluyter illuminates the hidden enlightenment teachings of Casablanca, Jaws, The Graduate, The Godfather, Memento, and ten other classic films, revealing spiritual wisdom in everything from 007's secret weapons to the colors of the Seven Dwarfs' eyes. So grab your popcorn, sit back, and prepare to have your mind opened. Cinema Nirvana is a funny but wise, practical but wildly entertaining guide to finding enlightenmentone movie at a time. http://www.amazon.com/Cinema-Nirvana-Enlightenment-Lessons-Movies/dp/1400049741/ref=sr_1_1?s=booksie=UTF8qid=1313930689sr=1-1 http://tinyurl.com/3bthhoo Read it some years ago. Highly recommended. Many here might find the chapter on Invasion of the Body-Snatchers of considerable interest, because in it Sluyter describes his involvement with TM (he bailed around 1985) and has some penetrating things to say about Maharishi. Here's the final paragraph of that chapter: I still believe that my first impression of [Maharishi] was right, that he was made out of light. We all are, the universe is, but some people, by being *consciously* so, may manifest that luminosity in an extravivid way that can inspire others to find it in themselves. I'm pretty sure he was one such. But how can someone so luminous also be so flawed? Perhaps that's his final lesson to me. The blazing, omniradiant light of enlightenment, unlike physical light, isn't limited to straight lines; it can travel even through twisted vessels like him, like me, like you. Despite our best efforts to make ourselves and our teachers smoothed-out superbeings, pod people without any fingerprints, we're only human. Really good writer. His Web site: http://www.deansluyter.com He also made half a dozen blog posts on Huffington Post back in 2009: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-sluyter
[FairfieldLife] Is charisma based on fantasy less real?
Another disappeared post, thanks to the Yahoo QA staff, or lack thereof. I'm reposting it because I'm curious if there are other DJDM freaks on this forum, and because...well, I never get close to 50 posts in a week these days anyway, and it really doesn't matter to me how many of them Yahoo eats... All of this talk of what is real vs. what is unreal, in conjunction with recent talk about charisma and the sense of I-am-RIGHTness that other people perceive and gravitate to naturally leads me to a shameless film plug. It's one of my favorite movies -- easily in my Top Five -- but I find that very few people even know it. This is, IMO, a result of a confused and misguided publicity campaign orchestrated by people who never got the movie, and thus tried to market it as some kind of Johnny Depp youth comedy. Turns out it IS a comedy, but at the same time very, very serious about serious subjects such as what is reality, what is real life vs. fantasy, and what are the only four great questions in life**. Add to this Marlon Brando and Faye Dunaway as Depp's costars, and you have the makings of a major hit. Instead it sunk like a stone, and is now held in high regard only by those who saw it for what it was -- one of the best films ever made by a first-time writer/director. The film is called Don Juan DeMarco. If you haven't seen it, you might enjoy it. It has the tightest script I've ever read (even better than American Beauty), and both the direction and the performances are letter-perfect. Perfect is, in fact, the word that most often springs to my mind when trying to describe it. YMMV, especially depending on how you feel about things like love and romance; this is arguably the most romantic film ever made. The following clip shows the opening of the movie. Depp is in his full Don Juan costume and persona: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQiRtJ6uumk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQiRtJ6uumk A few minutes later in the film, Don Juan is in a mental institution, being treated by psychiatrist Marlon Brando to cure him of his delusion that he is Don Juan. But if it IS a delusion, what enabled him to score so big-time in this hotel restaurant? The magic of Don Juan DeMarco is that it blurs the line between delusion and reality, and treats them as relational, not hierarchical. ** What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: only love.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Laws Of Nature Of Cafe Writing
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: snip 6. Never edit what you find yourself writing. That's what publishers pay non-writers to do; they're paying you to write. Division of labor, dudes. *So* wrong. So arrogant. So counterproductive. No need to tweak punctuation (unless it makes a difference to your meaning) or check your spelling or grammar. But for goodness' sake, *read over* what you've just written to see whether it makes sense, and revise as needed until it does. DO NOT leave that to your editors. It isn't fair to them to be forced to puzzle out what you meant and fix your sloppiness and incoherence. It wastes their time; and if they guess wrong, you'll either have to fix *their* fix, or, if you don't get to see their fixes before publication, you'll have to live with your name being attached in print to something you never meant to say, or something said badly by non-writers. Or both. In my experience, no *good* writer is so arrogant as to think a first draft is perfect just as it is. That may happen by accident, or some kind of divine inspiration, once in a blue moon, but it's the sheerest hubris to assume that it's going to happen *every time*. Your publishers are not just paying you to put any old words on a page; they're paying you to give them the best work of which you're capable. And unless you're a total hack, that won't be your first draft, or maybe even your second or third. The best writers spend more time revising than they do setting down that first draft.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
The Price is right wrote: [The image I get when I use the Mahamantra is a rather curvaceous naked women with an excellent tan dancing in front of of two guys in a wagon wearing cheap armour. One of them seems to be turning blue from holding his breath and the other has a bow and arrow in his hand. Am I using the correct mantra?] Mr Pricedouttatheballpark, You have the correct mantra! Do you have any idea how psychic you are? Do YOU? No Jyotishi has ever come close to this. So surreal, lets do a book! A movie! A reality TV show! A flash mob! On this Krishna day, you are the seer of the absolute. My friend Krishna, he is delighted with you visionary skills and you will be rewarded, by your wife of course! OH, I will have to explain later.you hit the nail on the head, dude! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@... wrote: Wow, 14,108. Did he write any manuals specifically about managing women? Did you post a you tube link about the Spirit Molecule in an earlier post? If so, have you read the book? From: John jr_esq@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 6:21:51 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts  Maybejust remember the blue guy is fond of dancing with many beautiful women at midnight on a full moon. He also is known to have married 14,108 women. So, you can learn how to manage women from him. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@ wrote: Thanks John, The image I get when I use the Mahamantra is a rather curvaceous naked women with an excellent tan dancing in front of of two guys in a wagon wearing cheap armour. One of them seems to be turning blue from holding his breath and the other has a bow and arrow in his hand. Am I using the correct mantra? From: John jr_esq@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 11:15:02 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts Chant the mahamantra while you're with her.  She'll stay away from you for sure. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@ wrote: You can thank Curtis for this post. Iâm still interested in techniques that can be employed to better manage the uncertainties of perception. The following describes; a situation that recently put me in great perceptual uncertainty---some of the techniques I might have employed to manage the uncertainty, and a request for other posters to share any technique suggestions they might want to post.  The wife owns her own company and summons me to her office from time to time to consult for her on various commercial activities. Although I know she does this because of my vast experience and overall brilliance, she claims itâs to get me away from FFL posting which appears to be causing me tennis elbow (in both arms). My latest engagement was related to human resource considerations for a new hire and an existing staff member. Specifically, one staff member I was asked to help is an attractive young woman with noticeably large breasts. For background, this woman graduated with honours from Stanford and about 70% of the time she exceeds her managers expectations when executing tasks she has been delegated.  Unfortunately, for the other 30% of her time she reverts to a Marilyn persona to distract colleagues from noticing her significant screw ups. Some may know the persona Iâm describing---voice becomes childlike and body language screams âsave meâ. Not to digress, but Iâve often wondered why great Moms teach their daughters to avoid âwolvesâ but say nothing to their sons about catching the next plane out of town when you run into a damsel in distress. I canât imagine what I could have saved being on time for that plane.  In the case of the attractive young woman with large breasts---when I sat down across from her in  her cubicle---I believe this in not uncommon with guys in this situation, I employed an uncertainty management technique by pretending I wasnât imagining her naked while she pretended that my thinking was as professional as my behaviour.  I would describe my performance as not unlike being on an  MDA drip and pretending its not making me that happy. The end result was not only the normal unreliability of perception, but a mutual non verbal agreement to lie about what was obviously occurring at the time. The results are not only a type of ânot taking the reality of my perceptions too seriously---what I believe is the
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Laws Of Nature Of Cafe Writing
On Aug 21, 2011, at 7:54 AM, turquoiseb wrote: 1. Tip well. The waitress can either be your best friend, or your worst enemy. If you want to come back and write in this cafe again, it is far better to be perceived as an over-tipping American than a cheapskate Dutchman. Just sayin'. I'd be in there about 5 minutes before they had me pegged. Barry, just out of curiosity, have you ever considered painting of any sort? Your writing often brings up a picture in my mind. Sal
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Definition of a suutra?
On Aug 21, 2011, at 9:46 AM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: A sUtra is a compilation of aphorisms that expresses the essence of all knowledge in a minimum of words. It must be universally applicable to all the faces of consciousness and faultless in its linguistic presentation. In one word, sutra is thus synonymous with fiction. In a phrase, a sutra must be spontaneously capable of sustaining multiple entendre.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Laws Of Nature Of Cafe Writing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7Ge7Sogrk --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@... wrote: On Aug 21, 2011, at 7:54 AM, turquoiseb wrote: 1. Tip well. The waitress can either be your best friend, or your worst enemy. If you want to come back and write in this cafe again, it is far better to be perceived as an over-tipping American than a cheapskate Dutchman. Just sayin'. I'd be in there about 5 minutes before they had me pegged. Barry, just out of curiosity, have you ever considered painting of any sort? Your writing often brings up a picture in my mind. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger
Wiki it Willi. Transcendentalism is based upon Kant and German Idealism. The Vedas and Upanishads are based upon Shruti - the self-revealing utterance of Vac. Another alternative meaning for transcendentalism is the classical philosophy that God transcends the manifest world. As John Scotus Erigena http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Scotus_Eriugena put it to Frankish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franks king Charles the Bald http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_the_Bald in the year 840 AD, We do not know what God is. God himself doesn't know what He is because He is not anything. Literally God is not, because He transcends being. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richardwillytexwilliams willytex@... wrote: Of course, all the teachers of the Upanishads were transcendentalists. Why do you think they all made reference to Brahman, the Transcendental Person? LoL!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Is charisma based on fantasy less real?
Great movie, Turq; many thanks. You remind me of another one I liked -- of a very different flavor -- called The Invention of Lying, which also nicely showed the relationship of Us with our I-particles, our bodymind, which believes pretty much everything we tell it in here, and then materializes our simple ideas or rules or programs as our Life out there. What I have been calling surrender into Reality could just as easily be called taking full responsibility for my own particular Reality. Life is not *a* Bitch; Life is *my* Bitch. In taking full responsibility for Her, just as She IS, as my perfect and utterly faithful other half, I surrender my heart to Her completely and adore Her madly, passionately. We cleave whole-heartedly to one another as husband and wife. My Life is my wife, is my own bodymind, as well as the movie out there it automatically creates or chooses from the great teeming chaos of What IS to dance out and display the choreography of my own simple thoughts. The original-series Star Trek episode Shore Leave, written by Theodore Sturgeon, beautifully expresses this understanding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shore_Leave_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series) Earth is like an amusement park which automatically materializes all of our thoughts (or rules) for us to enjoy. But for the most part we haven't even been aware of thinking those thoughts, and so some of us have considered this a nightmarish Hell-planet... *L*L*L* --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Another disappeared post, thanks to the Yahoo QA staff, or lack thereof. I'm reposting it because I'm curious if there are other DJDM freaks on this forum, and because...well, I never get close to 50 posts in a week these days anyway, and it really doesn't matter to me how many of them Yahoo eats... All of this talk of what is real vs. what is unreal, in conjunction with recent talk about charisma and the sense of I-am-RIGHTness that other people perceive and gravitate to naturally leads me to a shameless film plug. It's one of my favorite movies -- easily in my Top Five -- but I find that very few people even know it. This is, IMO, a result of a confused and misguided publicity campaign orchestrated by people who never got the movie, and thus tried to market it as some kind of Johnny Depp youth comedy. Turns out it IS a comedy, but at the same time very, very serious about serious subjects such as what is reality, what is real life vs. fantasy, and what are the only four great questions in life**. Add to this Marlon Brando and Faye Dunaway as Depp's costars, and you have the makings of a major hit. Instead it sunk like a stone, and is now held in high regard only by those who saw it for what it was -- one of the best films ever made by a first-time writer/director. The film is called Don Juan DeMarco. If you haven't seen it, you might enjoy it. It has the tightest script I've ever read (even better than American Beauty), and both the direction and the performances are letter-perfect. Perfect is, in fact, the word that most often springs to my mind when trying to describe it. YMMV, especially depending on how you feel about things like love and romance; this is arguably the most romantic film ever made. The following clip shows the opening of the movie. Depp is in his full Don Juan costume and persona: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQiRtJ6uumk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQiRtJ6uumk A few minutes later in the film, Don Juan is in a mental institution, being treated by psychiatrist Marlon Brando to cure him of his delusion that he is Don Juan. But if it IS a delusion, what enabled him to score so big-time in this hotel restaurant? The magic of Don Juan DeMarco is that it blurs the line between delusion and reality, and treats them as relational, not hierarchical. ** What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: only love.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Definition of a suutra?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Aug 21, 2011, at 9:46 AM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: A sUtra is a compilation of aphorisms that expresses the essence of all knowledge in a minimum of words. It must be universally applicable to all the faces of consciousness and faultless in its linguistic presentation. In one word, sutra is thus synonymous with fiction. In a phrase, a sutra must be spontaneously capable of sustaining multiple entendre. * * Nicely said, Vaj! Somewhat as a pun tickles itself and laughs simultaneously on many frequencies :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
Love those clips! It's all in how one defines the word real. --- On Sun, 8/21/11, turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, August 21, 2011, 3:34 AM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: Just occurred to me, are them real or fake?? :o The answer to this koan was more easily realized on Spanish beaches. There the jiggle factor was the the big tell. Or, if the woman in question was reclining, whether them remained pointing stead- fastly towards the midheaven, or more gracefully went with the natural tendency of gravity. But all of this stuff Curtis is reporting from David Eagleman's book has me wondering how we tell whether *anything* we perceive is real or fake. If the mind has such an extraordinary ability to shape false data into what it believes is true, is anything we believe to be real really real? Naturally, this leads me to a discussion of a movie. This whole subject of What is real? reminded me of a 1974 SciFi classic made on a shoestring budget by John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon, then still in film school. If you haven't seen it, the necessary back story for this clip is that a bomb big enough to blow up an entire planet before it falls into the sun and causes a supernova that could endanger a to-be-colonized star system, mistakenly gets the order to detonate. This is problematic, because it's still stuck in the bomb bay. As far as the bomb knows, it's been given the order to detonate, thus fulfilling its purpose in life. The crew is trying to stop the bomb from exploding, and in desperation one of the crew decides to teach the bomb epistemology. AI bomb being taught epistemology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjGRySVyTDk The bomb's resulting epiphany: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9-Niv2Xh7w
[FairfieldLife] Re: Mantra Meditation - for Buck
As everyone knows, this is counter to TM instruction. The first research on pure consciousness during TM was published more than 25 years ago and quite forcefully explains why this (Sahaj) practice isn't as effective as TM practice. Researchers asked people to press a button when they had an episode of pure consciousness. What the researchers found was that by the time a meditator pushed the button, they were no longer in an unusual state of consciousness: they had returned towards normal (for TM practice) levels of Alplha coherence and relaxed breathing. In other words, by the time you notice you are in pure consciousness during TM, you are actually out of it. Deciding to remain in this quiet state is impossible because the quiet state simply cannot be noticed while you are in it, so all you are doing is detracting from the *process* that is TM. Pure consciousness is totally unimportant during TM. It is the process of the inward stroke of meditation (decreasing mental activity) followed by the outer stroke that matters. Some period of inactivity at the transition between inward and outward is totally unimportant because in order to note that you are in that state of inactivity requires that the mind be active enough to note something in the first place. Research suggests that this will be true for everyone, no matter how long their pure consciousness during TM lasts: if they note that they are in pure consciousness, they are no longer in the pure state. Now, for someone who transcends for an entire meditation period, this model/theory may break down, but how many reading this have 20 minutes of breath suspension during TM practice and how would you know? L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote: Besides the difference in mantra-s, there is a difference in how the two meditations are done. In Sahaj practice, the understanding is that the mantra doesn't go anywhere so we don't actually lose the mantra. Because we were introduced to the mantra at initiation, it is naturally recognized and recollected when we sit down to meditate. However, if during meditation our attention has been absorbed in thoughts for a while without realizing it, then we just return to the mantra by recognizing it again. If we find our attention aware of thoughts occurring within the mind, that in itself, does not constitute a reason or a need to reintroduce the mantra. Just to rest in silent awareness, although there is no activity or object reference, is in itself meditation because awareness is fundamental while the mind is not. Or as SSRS has said, although you cannot know awareness, because it is not an object, you don't need to do so because you are that very awareness itself prior to mind and to the mind's experiences, whether objective or subjective. ��������������������.. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: The Power of Mantra Contrary to public misinformation, techniques like Transcendental Meditation or Sahaj Samadhi are not based on repetition. They utilize a much subtler science. Om, so are Transcendental Meditation and Sahaj Samadhi effectively the same? The similar practice? Just wondering. Anyone learned both? Anyone here taught both? -B vibrations of consciousness. Mantra carries the mind to the silence that was there before God said, Let there be light. In Sanskrit, mantra means vehicle for the mind: manas - mind, tra - vehicle. Tra is the root of our English suffix, tron. Electrons carry electricity. Positrons carry positivity. Mantras carry mind to its source.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Definition of a suutra?
But a sutra is valid on all possible frequencies, to use your analogy. A continuum of values is different than multiple discrete values, though in the real world, continuous merely means so many that they are uncountable for all practical purposes. Even so, enumerating all the possible meanings of a sutra, according to the definition below, would require that you also enumerate all the possible points of view that the sutra could be viewed from, which is still impossible for all practical purposes. L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Aug 21, 2011, at 9:46 AM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: A sUtra is a compilation of aphorisms that expresses the essence of all knowledge in a minimum of words. It must be universally applicable to all the faces of consciousness and faultless in its linguistic presentation. In one word, sutra is thus synonymous with fiction. In a phrase, a sutra must be spontaneously capable of sustaining multiple entendre. * * Nicely said, Vaj! Somewhat as a pun tickles itself and laughs simultaneously on many frequencies :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Definition of a suutra?
An interesting viewpoint, Lawson; many thanks. I have no idea whether a continuum of values is actually different than multiple discrete ones, but I strongly suspect they are actually the same. It seems to come down to the particle-vs.-wave viewpoints of what is actually a wavicle. By the same token, all the possible points of view are also Only One of Us, not intellectually enumarable perhaps, but still whole-heartedly, self-ticklingly BE-able. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: But a sutra is valid on all possible frequencies, to use your analogy. A continuum of values is different than multiple discrete values, though in the real world, continuous merely means so many that they are uncountable for all practical purposes. Even so, enumerating all the possible meanings of a sutra, according to the definition below, would require that you also enumerate all the possible points of view that the sutra could be viewed from, which is still impossible for all practical purposes. L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Aug 21, 2011, at 9:46 AM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: A sUtra is a compilation of aphorisms that expresses the essence of all knowledge in a minimum of words. It must be universally applicable to all the faces of consciousness and faultless in its linguistic presentation. In one word, sutra is thus synonymous with fiction. In a phrase, a sutra must be spontaneously capable of sustaining multiple entendre. * * Nicely said, Vaj! Somewhat as a pun tickles itself and laughs simultaneously on many frequencies :-)
[FairfieldLife] [Of Dystopias and Alphas] by Maureen Doud NYT
President Obama was on the way to Alpha when a plea came for him to be, well, more alpha. LuAnn Lavine, a real estate agent from Geneseo, a rural town just up the road from Alpha, Ill., the last stop on the president’s Midwestern bus tour, told The Times’s Jeff Zeleny: “Everyone was so hopeful with him, but Washington grabbed him and here we are. I just want him to stay strong and don’t take the guff. We want a president who is a leader, and I want him to be a little bit stronger.” Hers was a gentler message than the sign stuck on a post outside Alpha: “One Term President.” But her three words summed it up: Washington grabbed him. Why did this man whose contempt for Congress is clear, who ran on the idea that he could transform a broken Washington, surrender to its conventional timetable and bureaucratic language? The “supercommittee” that’s supposed to save us just sounds like more government bloat — supersizing something just as unhealthy as McDonald’s. Is Obama so isolated he can’t see that Americans are curled up in a ball, beaten down by a financial crisis, an identity crisis, a political crisis and a leadership crisis? He got the job by blaming Washington. But once you’re in the White House, you are Washington. It’s like the plumber who came to fix the sink waiting for the sink to fix itself. I covered the first President Bush when he took a slide from Iraq war hero to one-term president. A turning point came in the fall of 1991, when Americans were getting jittery about the economy. Conservatives urged Bush to adopt an aggressive agenda and a muscular stance toward Congress. But relying on the disastrous advice of his budget adviser Richard Darman, Bush waited for more than a month until the State of the Union address and repackaged the same tepid agenda. President Obama bashed Congress on his bus tour. But after delegating to Congress time and again with disastrous results, he continues to play the satellite to Congress. He shouldn’t be driven by the Washington schedule. He should be setting it. At long last, he promised a clear economic plan. Unfortunately, he had the fierce urgency of next month, when Congress gets back to town. Americans are rattled and want action. They don’t know or care what Congress’s schedule is. They just see the president not doing anything. Cruising white Midwestern hamlet in his black bus, Obama tried to justify not calling lawmakers back to D.C. by saying they’d just continue to bicker. But what does he think they’ll do in September? The truth is, he doesn’t want them back in the capital any more than they want to be back. It would have screwed up his vacation and upset Michelle, who already feels trapped in the Washington bubble. If Clinton wanted to be president 25 hours a day and W. wanted to be president four hours a day, Obama wants to be president for about 14 hours a day. And that’s fine, as long as you don’t look like you’re phoning it in when the country is dialing 911. White House officials must be worried about the 10-day Martha’s Vineyard idyll because, in a rare move, they put out a picture of the president with furrowed brow and Nike shirt getting a briefing from John Brennan, his top counterterrorism adviser. There were no pictures allowed of him at the Vineyard Golf Club, only shots of the president shopping for books with his daughters. He was seen in the Bunch of Grapes bookstore on Friday holding “Brave New World.” Maybe he was brushing up on dystopias and alphas. He might also want to pick up a volume of Robert Frost for some insight on why Democrats waste time trying to reconcile with ruthless foes. The president still believes he can use his enchanting powers to convert the other side, even though Republicans regard every Obama legislative achievement as the beginning of a campaign to recall it. Heck, they’re still trying to repeal the New Deal. Obama was truly stung by his budget experience with John Boehner. And now, Senator Tom Coburn, whom Obama called “not only a dear friend, but also a brother in Christ” at February’s National Prayer Breakfast, tells a town hall in Oklahoma that Obama’s views are “goofy and wrong,” and that the president wants to “create dependency” because “as an African-American male,” he had received “tremendous benefit” from government programs. There is no way to sell the idea that being a black man in America gives you tremendous benefit. How does Obama feel after his brother in Christ painted him as something akin to a welfare queen and an affirmative-action president? Let us take today’s lesson from Frost, who deliciously wrote in “The Lesson for Today”: I’m liberal. You, you aristocrat, Won’t know exactly what I mean by that. I mean so altruistically moral I never take my own side in a quarrel.
[FairfieldLife] 'As the Republicans 'Crucify' Obama'...
'They' crucify the rest of us as well...! Standing in the way of anything he tries to do, sabotaging his every move... Only the light of pure consciousness can see us through... J.G.D.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'As the Republicans 'Crucify' Obama'...
I'm afraid you are probably correct. The observation about rich men and camels certainly seems to apply here. L. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@... wrote: 'They' crucify the rest of us as well...! � Standing in the way of anything he tries to do, sabotaging his every move... � Only the light of pure consciousness can see us through... � J.G.D.
[FairfieldLife] Nand Kishore
I just watched David Wants to Fly for the first time last night. I had heard about the controversy among the rajas that was part of the film, but no one had mentioned that Nand Kishore was the center of the controversy. He was the Indian guy who sat there next to Bevan and challenged Tony Nader's right to take over the movement (until they shut off his mic). Kind of an interesting tidbit, don't you think? Wonder where he is now?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Buffett says Tax the Rich
Oh Judy, I realize that. However, he is a unit of the collective consciousness of FFL. I pay little attention to VAj, rarely reading his posts. I just get a *kick* out of reading the posts of the *cerebral crowd*, expounding from their superior intellects and tolerance for their own positions and I'm just tempted to put my two cents worth in. Then, I let it go... and take it as it comes. His attempted mocking of one or all five of the Texas accents reminds me of my youth when I thought it was cool to mock Ebonics, not out of hate, but because it sounded so cool. However, I realized that my perception was not the same as the person's being mocked and that it was like a knife, cutting into the soul of another person. That awareness, allowed me to *let it go(mocking people's speech)... and take it as it comes.* That simple instruction in meditation is a perfect exercise in learning how to *forgive*, one's self and others. Too bad we don't apply that technique more in our actions instead of limiting it to the field of thinking, more specifically... meditation. From: authfriend jst...@panix.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 9:00 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Buffett says Tax the Rich --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... wrote: Bhwahahahahahah it doesn't take much to bring out that transcendental peace and love from FFL! MAharishi would b so proud! LOL Er, Mike, Vaj hasn't been a TMer for a long time (if he ever was). From: Vaj vajradhatu@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 2:41 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Buffett says Tax the Rich On Aug 16, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Mike Dixon wrote: I care because if I were a billionaire, I wouldn't invest any of my money in an economy that was going to keep demanding that I keep subsidizing poverty. What ya should be dewin is goin' to Texas and praying to Jaysus witt Goobernor Purry. Jaysus controls this unified field thingy everyone knows. Hell how do ya think santa claws travels faster than light? It's the power of Jaysus and the unified fielders.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger
Of course, all the teachers of the Upanishads were transcendentalists. Why do you think they all made reference to Brahman, the Transcendental Person? emptybill: Transcendentalism is based upon Kant and German Idealism. Indian idealism came long before German Idealism. All Indian philosophical systems that postulate Brahman, are considered to be idealistic and in the Upanishad system. The Brahman in Indian scriptures refers to the Absolute that is beyond, or transcendental to, the senses of the material world. The Brahman or the Purusha is the Transcendental Person. The Vedas and Upanishads are based upon Shruti - the self-revealing utterance of Vac. Yoga is the cessation of the mental turnings of the mind: yoga citta vritti nirodha (Y.S. I.1.2). When thought ceases, the Transcendental Absolute stands by itself, refers to Itself, as a witness to the world: tada drastuh svarupe vasthanam (Y.S. I.1.3). Translation by Swami Venkatesananda Saraswati: http://www.swamivenkatesananda.com/ Read more: Subject: Raja Yoga From: Willytex Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental, alt.yoga, alt.meditation Date: September 18, 2003 http://tinyurl.com/2vpf58n
Re: [FairfieldLife] Nand Kishore
On Aug 21, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Rick Archer wrote: I just watched “David Wants to Fly” for the first time last night. I had heard about the “controversy among the rajas” that was part of the film, but no one had mentioned that Nand Kishore was the center of the controversy. He was the Indian guy who sat there next to Bevan and challenged Tony Nader’s right to take over the movement (until they shut off his mic). Kind of an interesting tidbit, don’t you think? Wonder where he is now? You should write a review from your POV, esp. given your inside knowledge.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Definition of a suutra?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: An interesting viewpoint, Lawson; many thanks. I have no idea whether a continuum of values is actually different than multiple discrete ones, but I strongly suspect they are actually the same. It seems to come down to the particle-vs.-wave viewpoints of what is actually a wavicle. By the same token, all the possible points of view are also Only One of Us, not intellectually enumarable perhaps, but still whole-heartedly, self-ticklingly BE-able. * * Sorry: not enumarable but enumerable; and so not enumerable but innumerable; That alone R US!
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Laws Of Nature Of Cafe Writing
On Aug 21, 2011, at 7:54 AM, turquoiseb wrote: 1. Tip well. The waitress can either be your best friend, or your worst enemy. If you want to come back and write in this cafe again, it is far better to be perceived as an over-tipping American than a cheapskate Dutchman. Just sayin'. Applies even to carry outs. Better to tip generously, but even a standard amount is acceptable. Just don't go below the standard. The expectation of a tip can really have an effect on service. If you are an infrequent diner, if you send some kind of non verbal cue, that helps, but usually you can't really do that, other than just being pleasant to the server. Yesterday I was a little clever. The daughter and I stopped in for a quick lunch at Ruby Tuesdays. They've got a great crab cake appetizer and a great salad bar. Salad bar is $2.99 with anything ordered, otherwise it's $8.99. We ordered one crab cake and one salad bar, and that server was watching me like a hawk making sure I wasn't going to partake of that salad bar. (It was for my daughter). I asked for the bill early, gave him a generous tip (well over 20%), and then got an extra serving or two at the salad bar which I ate without guilt. But in general, it's nice to be perceived as being a little generous, which I can often do, because my lunch and dinner bills are usually pretty small.
[FairfieldLife] Dean Sluyter (was Re: The Light That Dances)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: snip [Dean Sluyter, author of Cinema Nirvana] also made half a dozen blog posts on Huffington Post back in 2009: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-sluyter I just read all six of Dean Sluyter's posts on Huffington Post. They're very much worth a look: Emily Dickinson and the Buddha vs. the WWF http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-sluyter/emily-dickinson-and-the-b_b_251383.html http://tinyurl.com/nudqxh - The Dharma of Celebrity Death http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-sluyter/the-dharma-of-celebrity-d_b_243756.html http://tinyurl.com/mlvkta - It's Official: Nobody's Cool. (Kerouac Posthumously Blows It) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-sluyter/its-official-nobody-is-co_b_205371.html http://tinyurl.com/q6l6nm - Your Junk Drawer vs. Nirvana http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-sluyter/your-junk-drawer-vs-nirva_b_201204.html http://tinyurl.com/r7f5uc - Spirituality Belief [In case it doesn't show up properly, the character between the two words is a does not equal sign.--JS] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-sluyter/spirituality-belief_b_185899.html http://tinyurl.com/dat2b4 - Lord Shiva Kicks Ass: The Liberating Power of Loss http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-sluyter/lord-shiva-kicks-ass-the_b_179628.html http://tinyurl.com/d4ot2e It strikes me that Sluyter is sort of the anti-Barry. These posts are very much like Barry's cafe raps in some ways, extended musings on a variety of different thoughts inspired by current observations of the world and informed by a lifetime of experience and spiritual study and reflection. He makes many of the same points, in fact, that Barry does. But Sluyter's posts are very different from Barry's in other ways. They're all beautifully, cleanly, colorfully, tightly, *coherently* written; and he does not engage in either putdowns or self-exaltation. He's consistently humble, compassionate, and loving, as well as wonderfully eloquent. A great antidote. I wish he'd written more of them. (I posted the above this morning, but it hadn't shown up as of 2:45 this afternoon.)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Definition of a suutra?
On 08/21/2011 11:25 AM, RoryGoff wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoffrorygoff@... wrote: An interesting viewpoint, Lawson; many thanks. I have no idea whether a continuum of values is actually different than multiple discrete ones, but I strongly suspect they are actually the same. It seems to come down to the particle-vs.-wave viewpoints of what is actually a wavicle. By the same token, all the possible points of view are also Only One of Us, not intellectually enumarable perhaps, but still whole-heartedly, self-ticklingly BE-able. * * Sorry: not enumarable but enumerable; and so not enumerable but innumerable; That alone R US! I guess FFL is becoming Wikipedia where people define terms to fit their needs like Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin do. Sutra means thread and has alway meant that. The word suture comes from it. People from other paths reading this thread would be laughing their asses off at TMers and former TMers.
Re: [FairfieldLife] 'As the Republicans 'Crucify' Obama'...
On 08/21/2011 10:41 AM, Robert wrote: 'They' crucify the rest of us as well...! Standing in the way of anything he tries to do, sabotaging his every move... Only the light of pure consciousness can see us through... J.G.D. I'm sorry, I've long given up on the savior in chief. He behaves like he is a crony of the Republicans. And we know he is a crony of Wall Street. Time to turn off the Santy Claus and Easter Bunny machine and deal with reality. Power to the people!
[FairfieldLife] Summertime
Charlie Parkerpurity of sound is bliss. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1bWqViY5F4 PS. This is the second send...first seems to have disappeared.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Definition of a suutra?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 08/21/2011 11:25 AM, RoryGoff wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoffrorygoff@ wrote: An interesting viewpoint, Lawson; many thanks. I have no idea whether a continuum of values is actually different than multiple discrete ones, but I strongly suspect they are actually the same. It seems to come down to the particle-vs.-wave viewpoints of what is actually a wavicle. By the same token, all the possible points of view are also Only One of Us, not intellectually enumarable perhaps, but still whole-heartedly, self-ticklingly BE-able. * * Sorry: not enumarable but enumerable; and so not enumerable but innumerable; That alone R US! I guess FFL is becoming Wikipedia where people define terms to fit their needs like Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin do. Sutra means thread and has alway meant that. The word suture comes from it. People from other paths reading this thread would be laughing their asses off at TMers and former TMers. Where did I accept that definition? I was merely pointing out what I saw as an intellectual flaw in the reworded description. OTOH, even in the context of thread, the description has some validity. The sutra practice, as used in the TM-Siddhis program, is meant to bind the absolute and relative states of consciousness along certain specific channels. E.G. Yogic Flying accustoms the practitioner's nervous system to hopping around vigorously while still in a meditation-like state. No matter what context or state of consciousness the practitioner is in when they do the practice, the description of the technique remains valid: it ties some degree of transcendence to some kind of activity associated with the sutra's meaning. L.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Definition of a suutra?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 08/21/2011 11:25 AM, RoryGoff wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoffrorygoff@ wrote: An interesting viewpoint, Lawson; many thanks. I have no idea whether a continuum of values is actually different than multiple discrete ones, but I strongly suspect they are actually the same. It seems to come down to the particle-vs.-wave viewpoints of what is actually a wavicle. By the same token, all the possible points of view are also Only One of Us, not intellectually enumarable perhaps, but still whole-heartedly, self-ticklingly BE-able. * * Sorry: not enumarable but enumerable; and so not enumerable but innumerable; That alone R US! I guess FFL is becoming Wikipedia where people define terms to fit their needs like Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin do. Sutra means thread and has alway meant that. The word suture comes from it. People from other paths reading this thread would be laughing their asses off at TMers and former TMers. * * Yes, exactly, Bharaitu! And what does a thread literally *do*? It fastens two pieces of cloth together, or folds a cloth back upon itself. It stitches together disparate realities into a new unity, or different viewpoints into a single continuum; it tickles Us into remembering Us. And if along the way we laugh our asses off at and with ourselves, so much the better :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Laws Of Nature Of Cafe Writing
Obladi oblada life goes on, bra lala how the life goes on obladi oblada life goes on, bra lala how the life goes on And if you want some fun sing obladi blada --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba no_reply@... wrote: wow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7Ge7Sogrk that's art dude!! Sal was only asking for a painting job [;)] http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic/Alphonse_Maria_Mucha/big/JOB.jpg http://tinyurl.com/3m66rce --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Aug 21, 2011, at 7:54 AM, turquoiseb wrote: 1. Tip well. The waitress can either be your best friend, or your worst enemy. If you want to come back and write in this cafe again, it is far better to be perceived as an over-tipping American than a cheapskate Dutchman. Just sayin'. I'd be in there about 5 minutes before they had me pegged. Barry, just out of curiosity, have you ever considered painting of any sort? Your writing often brings up a picture in my mind. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: Definition of a suutra?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 08/21/2011 11:25 AM, RoryGoff wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoffrorygoff@ wrote: An interesting viewpoint, Lawson; many thanks. I have no idea whether a continuum of values is actually different than multiple discrete ones, but I strongly suspect they are actually the same. It seems to come down to the particle-vs.-wave viewpoints of what is actually a wavicle. By the same token, all the possible points of view are also Only One of Us, not intellectually enumarable perhaps, but still whole-heartedly, self-ticklingly BE-able. * * Sorry: not enumarable but enumerable; and so not enumerable but innumerable; That alone R US! I guess FFL is becoming Wikipedia where people define terms to fit their needs like Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin do. Sutra means thread and has alway meant that. The word suture comes from it. People from other paths reading this thread would be laughing their asses off at TMers and former TMers. Oh, probably not. If they had any smarts, they'd know that words can have both literal meanings and contextual meanings. In a spiritual context, the meaning can be quite elaborate and/or metaphorical. That sutra literally means thread is a given; we all know that. But that doesn't tell you much about what it means in context. (You just inadvertently proved this by using thread in the context of a Web forum, where it has a very different meaning from what it means in a spiritual context.)
[FairfieldLife] Why the US may be toast
Dylan Ratigan: Foreclosure Fraud 45 Trillion Dollars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yhZBgi5NOg Yup, as Ratigan asks at the end where are the Tea Baggers on this? My bet they're say why my bank has a wonderful machine that gives me money all the time. So go the idiocrazies.
[FairfieldLife] Huntsman 2.0 - Could Huntsman save the day for the GOP?
Huntsman 2.0 Thomas Lane | Talking Points Memo | August 21, 2011 Poll after poll shows that despite President Obama's sinking numbers he still fares well against virtually all his major GOP opponents. -- What do you make of the new hard-hittin', tough-tweetin' Jon Huntsman http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/jon-huntsman-takes-on-the-go\ p-field-and-president-obamas-leadership.php?ref=fpa ? We ran a piece http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/is-he-even-trying-huntsmans-\ tweets-almost-seem-designed-to-alienate-the-gop-base.php on Friday asking whether the former Utah governor and Obama-appointed ambassador to China was even trying to win the nomination any more. Since then numerous emails have come in from readers who think he's making a long play for the nomination in 2016. That's certainly a reasonable view. However, it's possible there's something else at work here, too. The Republican establishment is faced with something of a quandary right now. Even just a few months ago, the big money and major power-brokers thought 2012 was going to be unwinnable. It was widely believed that the economy would slowly pick up, and by November of next year President Obama would be able to take the credit for that and walk to re-election. This likely prompted the more credible GOP candidates, such as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, to decide to sit out the coming election and wait for 2016. By and large the GOP establishment seemed happy enough to send out the political equivalent of cannon-fodder that would be torn apart in the No Man's Land of 2012. However, the sudden threat of a double-dip recession means this election suddenly looks winnable for the Republicans... But only if they have the right candidate. Poll http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/cnn-poll-the-only-goper-who-\ can-beat-obama-isnot-running.php after poll http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/obama-surges-to-lead-against\ -generic-republican.php shows that despite President Obama's sinking numbers he still fares well against virtually all his major GOP opponents. Presumably this is maddening for the Republican establishment. All of a sudden what they need is a moderate savior who's not tarnished by either extreme flip-flopping or by outrageous statements against, say, the Federal Reserve http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/perry-calls-bernanke-policie\ s-almost-treasonous.php and the scientific process http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/perry-responds-to-question-a\ bout-creationism-earth-is-pretty-old-video.php . Hence the current conservative calls in some quarters http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/big-names-encourage-paul-ryan-run_5\ 90322.html for Rep. Paul Ryan and the brief flutter earlier this week over rumors of a Christie run http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/report-chris-christie-explor\ ing-presidential-run.php . This must be infuriating for Huntsman; as far as he must be concerned, the party already has its moderate savior and he's already in the race. Indeed, it's him. But the problem Huntsman faces is exactly that he is already in the race. Unlike Christie or Ryan there are now real polls for Huntsman, and they show him failing to catch alight. If he was entering the fray right now he'd figuratively be wearing a halo and would be suffused by a glowing ethereal light while angels flutter around him, plucking away at harps. But the nature of the nominating process meant that in order to get a viable campaign on the ground, he had to enter a few months ago, before there was this great GOP thirst for a candidate just like him. Having gotten in at that stage, now the numbers are in as well, and the power-brokers can dismiss him while casting their eyes around for a candidate whose halo has not been tarnished by the grime of poor poll numbers. That could well be the significance behind this new combative Huntsman; he's indicating to the types of people pining after Christie or Ryan -- and lamenting that they don't have much time to set up a campaign on the ground -- that there is already an Independent-friendly candidate right under their noses. These new moves are intended to reboot his campaign into Huntsman 2.0. At the very least it should guarantee he at least gets asked some proper questions in the next GOP debate. It's a tough strategy as it does indeed involve alienating the Tea Party-leaning sections of the base. But right now it seems the only strategy that's left. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/08/huntsman_20.php?ref=fpblg http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/08/huntsman_20.php?ref=fpblg\
[FairfieldLife] Re: Definition of a suutra?
A thread in a forum refers to the connectivity of the individual messages via the tree of nodes that describe which message a given message was a response to, so there's some slight similarity of meaning, even there. L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: [...] (You just inadvertently proved this by using thread in the context of a Web forum, where it has a very different meaning from what it means in a spiritual context.)
[FairfieldLife] Ron Paul @ Liberty Summit, Orlando, Florida August 19, 2011
http://c-spanvideo.org/program/PaulRemar#
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'As the Republicans 'Crucify' Obama'...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 08/21/2011 10:41 AM, Robert wrote: 'They' crucify the rest of us as well...! Standing in the way of anything he tries to do, sabotaging his every move... Only the light of pure consciousness can see us through... J.G.D. Climb every mountain... I'm sorry, I've long given up on the savior in chief. He behaves like he is a crony of the Republicans. And we know he is a crony of Wall Street. Time to turn off the Santy Claus and Easter Bunny machine and deal with reality. Power to the people!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Definition of a suutra?
Bhairitu:
Sutra means thread and has alway meant that.
The word suture comes from it. People from
other paths reading this thread would be
laughing their asses off at TMers and former
TMers...
Not to mention the 'Tantra' teachers on FFL who
think they're the only person on the planet to
have know how to sew or weave a basket.
ROTFLOL!!!
1. sUtra n. (accord. to g. %{ardhacA7di} also m.;
fr. %{siv}, 'to sew'...
http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/cgi-bin/tamil/recherche/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Definition of a suutra?
cardemaister: So, a translation might start for instance like this: Knowers of suutras (suutra-vidah) know (viduH) a suutra (to be, or stuff) alpaakSaram... Knowers of suutras, know that jus 2 b reg 2 x y med, ne alt sans 3 guns, seps abs, n' i's wide-shut; nodoz, no brr-down, u enjoy THIS THAT.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Do nothing and accomplish everything.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: Small self surrounded by Big Self is not anything of value. CC precedes GC precedes UC. If you think you're having some kind of UC experience when not already in CC (no small self), then you're not having UC. But Whos on first? Or is he? L. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: I interpret this as meaning do nothing as the self, and everything will be accomplished by the Self. In waking state it makes no sense at all. FWIW, that's the exact opposite of what MMY meant by it, with reference to the Gita. For the enlightened person, it's the Self that is the nondoer, and the self that acts according to the dictates of the gunas. * * That was my first thought too, Judy. But then I saw what Jim meant -- when we (small selves) are surrendered to Wholeness (big Self), it appears that Wholeness is running the whole show, and we do nothing. But from the other point of view, as the Gita says, We as wholeness do nothing, and the I-particles, the small selves, do it all. I suspect that no-one actually does anything, big-S or small-s, but it all just gets done (or appears to get done) anyhow. Who does a dream, anyway? The dreamer isn't doing anything but watching it unfold, and the dream-characters don't really exist as separate entities, so they aren't really doing anything, either, though when we are identified with one of the characters, we sure think we are doing something!
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Why Obama will be Pres. again'...(Power Temptation)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@... wrote: From my understanding of 'Why' Barack Obama is and will be President again: Is Because: He is a 'moderatiing force' in the time of 'great turmoil' , that we are experiencing on all levels with the coming of the year: 2012, and the end of the Mayan Calender, signifying the end of an old time, and the beginning of a 'New Time'... In the new time, time will begin to be experienced as proposed in 'Einstein's Theory of Relativity'...that of being 'Flexible'... The inner field of the light of consciousness will be more readily available to the 'World dPopulation'... This means as 'Time' is experienced in it's relativity, more and more people will be encouraged to 'Follow their Heart' , or 'Follow their Bliss' as we see more of the younger generation, fulfilling their hearts and souls this way, around the world, and further, the younger ones are establishing, in their hearts: Less prejudice in general to people different from them, but rather a curiousity about people from different cultures, backrounds and eithnic values... As more and more of the 'Old Way' is being exhibited for it's 'Egoic Prejudiced Values'...only striving to preserve the 'Hoarded Wealth of the Rich'... We begin to see the 'Temptation of Power' and how it is used to as it were, Keep societies stuck, while only the most wealthy, proper... This way is coming to an end soon, and because President Obama is the one with the most love for his family and his nation, and because he is the one who(partly because he grew up in Hawaii), that has the 'Balanced Temperment' and intelligence...will be elected again... He has avoided most of the temptations which come with the gaining of 'Worldly Power'... So, in conclusion, we can see why the Republicans are having so much trouble finding someone to face off with President Obama... J.G.D. I just sent a post on Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, who appears to be the only sane and really electable GOP presidential candidate. But I don't think anyone will beat Obama in 2012.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Definition of a suutra?
I did the sidhis techniques 2x a day for 13 years (1980-1993). My experience of each sutra was that through its vibration when thought, a sutra weaves a fabric of the spacetime continuum that favors its result. How that meshes with us as individuals determines the successful outcome or otherwise, of the sutra. It is a willful tuning of our nervous system to favor a result. A few of the ones I learned 30 years ago work well to this day, without doing the practice. The whole experience brought me to the conclusion that my senses and consciousness don't stop with me, but continue threading their way into my outer world to the point where it becomes impossible to distinguish what is me and what is the other, though I obviously continue to operate normally within my expanding environment. As a review of the techniques themselves, I never felt they were damaging in any way. The only issue I ever had was that they tended to make me feel ungrounded at times, spaced out, as I suspect they did many others. However they were truth in advertising, in other words, quite powerful, and if you followed the guidelines, no problemo. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: On 08/21/2011 11:25 AM, RoryGoff wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoffrorygoff@ wrote: An interesting viewpoint, Lawson; many thanks. I have no idea whether a continuum of values is actually different than multiple discrete ones, but I strongly suspect they are actually the same. It seems to come down to the particle-vs.-wave viewpoints of what is actually a wavicle. By the same token, all the possible points of view are also Only One of Us, not intellectually enumarable perhaps, but still whole-heartedly, self-ticklingly BE-able. * * Sorry: not enumarable but enumerable; and so not enumerable but innumerable; That alone R US! I guess FFL is becoming Wikipedia where people define terms to fit their needs like Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin do. Sutra means thread and has alway meant that. The word suture comes from it. People from other paths reading this thread would be laughing their asses off at TMers and former TMers. * * Yes, exactly, Bharaitu! And what does a thread literally *do*? It fastens two pieces of cloth together, or folds a cloth back upon itself. It stitches together disparate realities into a new unity, or different viewpoints into a single continuum; it tickles Us into remembering Us. And if along the way we laugh our asses off at and with ourselves, so much the better :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Definition of a suutra?
On Aug 21, 2011, at 1:20 PM, sparaig wrote: But a sutra is valid on all possible frequencies, to use your analogy. A continuum of values is different than multiple discrete values, though in the real world, continuous merely means so many that they are uncountable for all practical purposes. Even so, enumerating all the possible meanings of a sutra, according to the definition below, would require that you also enumerate all the possible points of view that the sutra could be viewed from, which is still impossible for all practical purposes. IME sutras, that is samadhic literature, is not infinite in it's individual scope, it is limited to the various perspectives available in particular lifeforms and unique context it has. So therefore the type of samadhic literature we're likely to read or discuss is that intended primarily for the human dimension, which is not to say that that there is not some overlap between dimensions, there of course is. Even though the causes of suffering are effectively infinite, revealed spiritual literature of this type often limits the number of perspectives to the particular type of listeners it's intended for. So the sutric fabric of the yoga-sutras is intended from the POV of turiyatita or cosmic consciousness whose structure is defined by samkhya cosmological frameworks and it's listeners.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger
According to Shankara, citta-vritti nirodha by itself cannot lead to knowledge of Brahman. Only someone who has received the instructions (mahâvakya) pointing directly to Atman, as found in the whispered lineage of the Upanishads, will be able to generate correct knowledge (samyag-jñana). Although having received this knowledge, the strong pull of the senses away from Self-knowledge (atma-samvid) will lead most people astray because of their prarabdha-karma. To counter this Shankara upholds the practice of contemplation of the Self, which he calls steady (samtati) recollection (smriti) of Self-knowledge (âtma-vijñana). According to Shankara, citta-vritti-nirodha is the result of recollection/comtemplation of brahma-âtman (smriti-samtati) rather than acting as a means to realize it. Practiced b itself, citta-vritti-nirodha only purifies the person practicing it. . --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richardwillytexwilliams willytex@... wrote: Of course, all the teachers of the Upanishads were transcendentalists. Why do you think they all made reference to Brahman, the Transcendental Person? emptybill: Transcendentalism is based upon Kant and German Idealism. Indian idealism came long before German Idealism. All Indian philosophical systems that postulate Brahman, are considered to be idealistic and in the Upanishad system. The Brahman in Indian scriptures refers to the Absolute that is beyond, or transcendental to, the senses of the material world. The Brahman or the Purusha is the Transcendental Person. The Vedas and Upanishads are based upon Shruti - the self-revealing utterance of Vac. Yoga is the cessation of the mental turnings of the mind: yoga citta vritti nirodha (Y.S. I.1.2). When thought ceases, the Transcendental Absolute stands by itself, refers to Itself, as a witness to the world: tada drastuh svarupe vasthanam (Y.S. I.1.3). Translation by Swami Venkatesananda Saraswati: http://www.swamivenkatesananda.com/ Read more: Subject: Raja Yoga From: Willytex Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental, alt.yoga, alt.meditation Date: September 18, 2003 http://tinyurl.com/2vpf58n
[FairfieldLife] Iowa State Fair
The Iowa State Fair has pushed the limit on what you can fry on a stick. This year, Fried Butter on a Stick made its debut. Not worth the calories that would go directly to my ass. Huffpo reported this artery clogging delicacy is quite yummy. Some things just don't belong on a stick. I had a foot-long brat on a BUN. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/11/fried-butter-stick-iowa-state-fair_n_924768.html I captured a flavor of the Iowa State Fair for FFLife on my Flip video camera yesterday. The software in right in the camera...very cool. 1:58 Movie: Flip has a magic movie function. http://tinyurl.com/3r3gl2l 3:25 Movie: Flip video mixed with still shots. http://tinyurl.com/3vf2em6 Photos: Check out the famous butter cow. http://tinyurl.com/3pdy7dv Here's the list of foods on-a-stick as of Fair 2011 Fried Butter on-a-stick Peanut Butter Jelly on-a-stick Chocolate Covered Fried Ice Cream on-a-stick Cheesecake on-a-stick Fair Square Chocolate-covered tiramisu on-a-stick Turtle mousse bar on-a-stick Twinkie log on-a-stick (frozen Twinkie dipped in white chocolate and rolled in cashews) Octodog (hotdog in the shape of an octopus) Chocolate-dipped cake on-a-stick Buffalo chicken on-a-stick Chocolate-covered peanut butter round on-a-stick Chocolate-covered key lime round on-a-stick Carmellows on-a-stick Pretzel rods dipped in caramel or chocolate Pickle on-a-stick Pork chop on-a-stick Corn dog Cheese on-a-stick Cajun chicken on-a-stick Sesame chicken on-a-stick Carmel apple German sausage on-a-stick Teriyaki beef on-a-stick Corn on the cob on-a-stick Cotton candy Veggie dog on-a-stick Turkey drumstick Nutty bar Fried pickle on-a-stick Hot bologna on-a-stick Shrimp on-a-stick Chicken on-a-stick Monkey Tails (chocolate covered banana on-a-stick) Honey on-a-stick Ice cream Wonder Bar Deep fried Snickers bar on-a-stick Deep fried Milky Way bar on-a-stick Deep fried Twinkie on-a-stick Lamb on-a-stick Meatballs on-a-stick Deep fried hoho on-a-stick Funtastick Pork on-a-stick Dutch letters on-a-stick Deep fried hot dog on-a-stick Chocolate covered cheesecake on-a-stick Pineapple on-a-stick (Fresh pineapple dipped in funnel cake batter and deep fried) Chicken lips on-a-stick (breaded chicken breast smothered with hot sauce, served with blue cheese dressing). Cornbrat on-a-stick (bratwurst dipped in corndog batter) Chocolate covered Ice cream cookie sandwich on-a-stick Rock candy on-a-stick Salad on-a-stick Hard-boiled egg on-a-stick
[FairfieldLife] Re: Mantra Meditation - for Buck
This explanation conflates the difference between mind/consciousness (citta) and awareness (cit) or, if you prefer, between drishti-matra and buddhi. Awareness is prior to consciousness whether that consciousness is pure or dominated by vritti-s. An act of noticing is an activity of mind/consciousness, while awareness is definitional of what we are. Awareness is independent of the inward or outward stroke of the mind/consciousness and of buddhi-sattva. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: As everyone knows, this is counter to TM instruction. In other words, by the time you notice you are in pure consciousness during TM, you are actually out of it. Deciding to remain in this quiet state is impossible because the quiet state simply cannot be noticed while you are in it, so all you are doing is detracting from the *process* that is TM. Pure consciousness is totally unimportant during TM. It is the process of the inward stroke of meditation (decreasing mental activity) followed by the outer stroke that matters. Some period of inactivity at the transition between inward and outward is totally unimportant because in order to note that you are in that state of inactivity requires that the mind be active enough to note something in the first place. L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote: Besides the difference in mantra-s, there is a difference in how the two meditations are done. In Sahaj practice, the understanding is that the mantra doesn't go anywhere so we don't actually lose the mantra. Because we were introduced to the mantra at initiation, it is naturally recognized and recollected when we sit down to meditate. However, if during meditation our attention has been absorbed in thoughts for a while without realizing it, then we just return to the mantra by recognizing it again. If we find our attention aware of thoughts occurring within the mind, that in itself, does not constitute a reason or a need to reintroduce the mantra. Just to rest in silent awareness, although there is no activity or object reference, is in itself meditation because awareness is fundamental while the mind is not. Or as SSRS has said, although you cannot know awareness, because it is not an object, you don't need to do so because you are that very awareness itself prior to mind and to the mind's experiences, whether objective or subjective. ��������������������.. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: The Power of Mantra Contrary to public misinformation, techniques like Transcendental Meditation or Sahaj Samadhi are not based on repetition. They utilize a much subtler science. Om, so are Transcendental Meditation and Sahaj Samadhi effectively the same? The similar practice? Just wondering. Anyone learned both? Anyone here taught both? -B vibrations of consciousness. Mantra carries the mind to the silence that was there before God said, Let there be light. In Sanskrit, mantra means vehicle for the mind: manas - mind, tra - vehicle. Tra is the root of our English suffix, tron. Electrons carry electricity. Positrons carry positivity. Mantras carry mind to its source.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Do nothing and accomplish everything.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: Small self surrounded by Big Self is not anything of value. CC precedes GC precedes UC. If you think you're having some kind of UC experience when not already in CC (no small self), then you're not having UC. But Whos on first? Or is he? * * An interesting point. I do not recall any descriptions by MMY that Cosmic Consciousness involved no small self, only an addition of a Witness to the small self. As far as I can see, the small self disappears only in Brahman, quite a different Awakening than that of C.C.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Iowa State Fair
On 08/21/2011 02:37 PM, raunchydog wrote: The Iowa State Fair has pushed the limit on what you can fry on a stick. This year, Fried Butter on a Stick made its debut. Not worth the calories that would go directly to my ass. Huffpo reported this artery clogging delicacy is quite yummy. Some things just don't belong on a stick. I had a foot-long brat on a BUN. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/11/fried-butter-stick-iowa-state-fair_n_924768.html I captured a flavor of the Iowa State Fair for FFLife on my Flip video camera yesterday. The software in right in the camera...very cool. 1:58 Movie: Flip has a magic movie function. http://tinyurl.com/3r3gl2l 3:25 Movie: Flip video mixed with still shots. http://tinyurl.com/3vf2em6 Photos: Check out the famous butter cow. http://tinyurl.com/3pdy7dv Here's the list of foods on-a-stick as of Fair 2011 Fried Butter on-a-stick Peanut Butter Jelly on-a-stick Chocolate Covered Fried Ice Cream on-a-stick Cheesecake on-a-stick Fair Square Chocolate-covered tiramisu on-a-stick Turtle mousse bar on-a-stick Twinkie log on-a-stick (frozen Twinkie dipped in white chocolate and rolled in cashews) Octodog (hotdog in the shape of an octopus) Chocolate-dipped cake on-a-stick Buffalo chicken on-a-stick Chocolate-covered peanut butter round on-a-stick Chocolate-covered key lime round on-a-stick Carmellows on-a-stick Pretzel rods dipped in caramel or chocolate Pickle on-a-stick Pork chop on-a-stick Corn dog Cheese on-a-stick Cajun chicken on-a-stick Sesame chicken on-a-stick Carmel apple German sausage on-a-stick Teriyaki beef on-a-stick Corn on the cob on-a-stick Cotton candy Veggie dog on-a-stick Turkey drumstick Nutty bar Fried pickle on-a-stick Hot bologna on-a-stick Shrimp on-a-stick Chicken on-a-stick Monkey Tails (chocolate covered banana on-a-stick) Honey on-a-stick Ice cream Wonder Bar Deep fried Snickers bar on-a-stick Deep fried Milky Way bar on-a-stick Deep fried Twinkie on-a-stick Lamb on-a-stick Meatballs on-a-stick Deep fried hoho on-a-stick Funtastick Pork on-a-stick Dutch letters on-a-stick Deep fried hot dog on-a-stick Chocolate covered cheesecake on-a-stick Pineapple on-a-stick (Fresh pineapple dipped in funnel cake batter and deep fried) Chicken lips on-a-stick (breaded chicken breast smothered with hot sauce, served with blue cheese dressing). Cornbrat on-a-stick (bratwurst dipped in corndog batter) Chocolate covered Ice cream cookie sandwich on-a-stick Rock candy on-a-stick Salad on-a-stick Hard-boiled egg on-a-stick Nice work! Guess how much my first HD camera which did only 720p cost me back in 2003? $3500 (they threw in a JVC HD VCR). Now you can get them for $100 or less and they take better video.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Do nothing and accomplish everything.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: Small self surrounded by Big Self is not anything of value. CC precedes GC precedes UC. If you think you're having some kind of UC experience when not already in CC (no small self), then you're not having UC. But Whos on first? Or is he? * * An interesting point. I do not recall any descriptions by MMY that Cosmic Consciousness involved no small self, only an addition of a Witness to the small self. As far as I can see, the small self disappears only in Brahman, quite a different Awakening than that of C.C. Okay, I'll give you that. But then, Whats on second?
[FairfieldLife] The experience of Super Radiance
For those who aren't sidhas you can't appreciate just what the Maharishi Effect is like. This video will give you some cues. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQXVHITd1N4
[FairfieldLife] Re: Iowa State Fair
* * Beautiful glimpses of the Fair; many thanks, RD! Loved all your foods on a stick. Despite the picture of a salad-on-a-stick I saw in the corner of the second floor of the butter-cow pavilion, I didn't really see how that could work. Seemed that unless you performed a sword-swallowing trick, most of the lettuce would end up in your lap or on the floor. Speaking of calories-direct-to-ass, did you ever try the deep-fried candy bar? I was briefly tempted, but decided not My wife sampled the lamb-burger and the ostrich jerky (which latter I nibbled a corner of -- tasted a lot like the Slim Jims of my boyhood), and we both did enjoy the lemonade with Iowa honey! A much softer and more well-rounded flavor than the usual sugar-jiggered lemonade. Man, that place is *huge* -- after traipsing across the entire grounds -- sometimes with help of a tractor-drawn caravan -- we wanted to close by checking out the buckskinners' camp, but reluctantly decided to give it a pass, as it was on the far end of the grounds from where our bus would take us back to our car. so we opted for Trader Joe's instead. Wow. Talk about food! Well worth the extra drive to West Des Moines Next time, I will probably try the chevre mixed with wild blueberries and vanilla that I considered there :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: The Iowa State Fair has pushed the limit on what you can fry on a stick. This year, Fried Butter on a Stick made its debut. Not worth the calories that would go directly to my ass. Huffpo reported this artery clogging delicacy is quite yummy. Some things just don't belong on a stick. I had a foot-long brat on a BUN. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/11/fried-butter-stick-iowa-state-fair_n_924768.html I captured a flavor of the Iowa State Fair for FFLife on my Flip video camera yesterday. The software in right in the camera...very cool. 1:58 Movie: Flip has a magic movie function. http://tinyurl.com/3r3gl2l 3:25 Movie: Flip video mixed with still shots. http://tinyurl.com/3vf2em6 Photos: Check out the famous butter cow. http://tinyurl.com/3pdy7dv Here's the list of foods on-a-stick as of Fair 2011 Fried Butter on-a-stick Peanut Butter Jelly on-a-stick Chocolate Covered Fried Ice Cream on-a-stick Cheesecake on-a-stick Fair Square Chocolate-covered tiramisu on-a-stick Turtle mousse bar on-a-stick Twinkie log on-a-stick (frozen Twinkie dipped in white chocolate and rolled in cashews) Octodog (hotdog in the shape of an octopus) Chocolate-dipped cake on-a-stick Buffalo chicken on-a-stick Chocolate-covered peanut butter round on-a-stick Chocolate-covered key lime round on-a-stick Carmellows on-a-stick Pretzel rods dipped in caramel or chocolate Pickle on-a-stick Pork chop on-a-stick Corn dog Cheese on-a-stick Cajun chicken on-a-stick Sesame chicken on-a-stick Carmel apple German sausage on-a-stick Teriyaki beef on-a-stick Corn on the cob on-a-stick Cotton candy Veggie dog on-a-stick Turkey drumstick Nutty bar Fried pickle on-a-stick Hot bologna on-a-stick Shrimp on-a-stick Chicken on-a-stick Monkey Tails (chocolate covered banana on-a-stick) Honey on-a-stick Ice cream Wonder Bar Deep fried Snickers bar on-a-stick Deep fried Milky Way bar on-a-stick Deep fried Twinkie on-a-stick Lamb on-a-stick Meatballs on-a-stick Deep fried hoho on-a-stick Funtastick Pork on-a-stick Dutch letters on-a-stick Deep fried hot dog on-a-stick Chocolate covered cheesecake on-a-stick Pineapple on-a-stick (Fresh pineapple dipped in funnel cake batter and deep fried) Chicken lips on-a-stick (breaded chicken breast smothered with hot sauce, served with blue cheese dressing). Cornbrat on-a-stick (bratwurst dipped in corndog batter) Chocolate covered Ice cream cookie sandwich on-a-stick Rock candy on-a-stick Salad on-a-stick Hard-boiled egg on-a-stick
[FairfieldLife] Re: Mantra Meditation - for Buck
* * Nicely put. Our BEing is a priori, ever-present, unconditioned and unconditional... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote: This explanation conflates the difference between mind/consciousness (citta) and awareness (cit) or, if you prefer, between drishti-matra and buddhi. Awareness is prior to consciousness whether that consciousness is pure or dominated by vritti-s. An act of noticing is an activity of mind/consciousness, while awareness is definitional of what we are. Awareness is independent of the inward or outward stroke of the mind/consciousness and of buddhi-sattva. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: As everyone knows, this is counter to TM instruction. In other words, by the time you notice you are in pure consciousness during TM, you are actually out of it. Deciding to remain in this quiet state is impossible because the quiet state simply cannot be noticed while you are in it, so all you are doing is detracting from the *process* that is TM. Pure consciousness is totally unimportant during TM. It is the process of the inward stroke of meditation (decreasing mental activity) followed by the outer stroke that matters. Some period of inactivity at the transition between inward and outward is totally unimportant because in order to note that you are in that state of inactivity requires that the mind be active enough to note something in the first place. L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote: Besides the difference in mantra-s, there is a difference in how the two meditations are done. In Sahaj practice, the understanding is that the mantra doesn't go anywhere so we don't actually lose the mantra. Because we were introduced to the mantra at initiation, it is naturally recognized and recollected when we sit down to meditate. However, if during meditation our attention has been absorbed in thoughts for a while without realizing it, then we just return to the mantra by recognizing it again. If we find our attention aware of thoughts occurring within the mind, that in itself, does not constitute a reason or a need to reintroduce the mantra. Just to rest in silent awareness, although there is no activity or object reference, is in itself meditation because awareness is fundamental while the mind is not. Or as SSRS has said, although you cannot know awareness, because it is not an object, you don't need to do so because you are that very awareness itself prior to mind and to the mind's experiences, whether objective or subjective. ��������������������.. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: The Power of Mantra Contrary to public misinformation, techniques like Transcendental Meditation or Sahaj Samadhi are not based on repetition. They utilize a much subtler science. Om, so are Transcendental Meditation and Sahaj Samadhi effectively the same? The similar practice? Just wondering. Anyone learned both? Anyone here taught both? -B vibrations of consciousness. Mantra carries the mind to the silence that was there before God said, Let there be light. In Sanskrit, mantra means vehicle for the mind: manas - mind, tra - vehicle. Tra is the root of our English suffix, tron. Electrons carry electricity. Positrons carry positivity. Mantras carry mind to its source.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Do nothing and accomplish everything.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: Small self surrounded by Big Self is not anything of value. CC precedes GC precedes UC. If you think you're having some kind of UC experience when not already in CC (no small self), then you're not having UC. But Whos on first? Or is he? * * An interesting point. I do not recall any descriptions by MMY that Cosmic Consciousness involved no small self, only an addition of a Witness to the small self. As far as I can see, the small self disappears only in Brahman, quite a different Awakening than that of C.C. Okay, I'll give you that. But then, Whats on second? * * That's right.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Mantra Meditation - for Buck
You said: If we *find our attention aware of thoughts* occurring within the mind, that in itself, does not constitute a reason or a need to reintroduce the mantra. You're just playing Sanskrit semantic games to avoid admitting that I am correct. REgardless, the proof is in the pudding. After 25 years of people practice the techniques that Sri Sri Ravi Shankar teaches, where is the research on people showing pure consciousness? L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote: This explanation conflates the difference between mind/consciousness (citta) and awareness (cit) or, if you prefer, between drishti-matra and buddhi. Awareness is prior to consciousness whether that consciousness is pure or dominated by vritti-s. An act of noticing is an activity of mind/consciousness, while awareness is definitional of what we are. Awareness is independent of the inward or outward stroke of the mind/consciousness and of buddhi-sattva. ������������������������������ --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: As everyone knows, this is counter to TM instruction. In other words, by the time you notice you are in pure consciousness during TM, you are actually out of it. Deciding to remain in this quiet state is impossible because the quiet state simply cannot be noticed while you are in it, so all you are doing is detracting from the *process* that is TM. Pure consciousness is totally unimportant during TM. It is the process of the inward stroke of meditation (decreasing mental activity) followed by the outer stroke that matters. Some period of inactivity at the transition between inward and outward is totally unimportant because in order to note that you are in that state of inactivity requires that the mind be active enough to note something in the first place. L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote: Besides the difference in mantra-s, there is a difference in how the two meditations are done. In Sahaj practice, the understanding is that the mantra doesn't go anywhere so we don't actually lose the mantra. Because we were introduced to the mantra at initiation, it is naturally recognized and recollected when we sit down to meditate. However, if during meditation our attention has been absorbed in thoughts for a while without realizing it, then we just return to the mantra by recognizing it again. If we find our attention aware of thoughts occurring within the mind, that in itself, does not constitute a reason or a need to reintroduce the mantra. Just to rest in silent awareness, although there is no activity or object reference, is in itself meditation because awareness is fundamental while the mind is not. Or as SSRS has said, although you cannot know awareness, because it is not an object, you don't need to do so because you are that very awareness itself prior to mind and to the mind's experiences, whether objective or subjective. ��������������������.. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: The Power of Mantra Contrary to public misinformation, techniques like Transcendental Meditation or Sahaj Samadhi are not based on repetition. They utilize a much subtler science. Om, so are Transcendental Meditation and Sahaj Samadhi effectively the same? The similar practice? Just wondering. Anyone learned both? Anyone here taught both? -B vibrations of consciousness. Mantra carries the mind to the silence that was there before God said, Let there be light. In Sanskrit, mantra means vehicle for the mind: manas - mind, tra - vehicle. Tra is the root of our English suffix, tron. Electrons carry electricity. Positrons carry positivity. Mantras carry mind to its source.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Do nothing and accomplish everything.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: Small self surrounded by Big Self is not anything of value. CC precedes GC precedes UC. If you think you're having some kind of UC experience when not already in CC (no small self), then you're not having UC. But Whos on first? Or is he? * * An interesting point. I do not recall any descriptions by MMY that Cosmic Consciousness involved no small self, only an addition of a Witness to the small self. As far as I can see, the small self disappears only in Brahman, quite a different Awakening than that of C.C. Small self surrounded by Big Self means what, according to you, in terms of CC, GC, UC, etc? L
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Definition of a suutra?
On 08/21/2011 01:32 PM, richardwillytexwilliams wrote:
Bhairitu:
Sutra means thread and has alway meant that.
The word suture comes from it. People from
other paths reading this thread would be
laughing their asses off at TMers and former
TMers...
Not to mention the 'Tantra' teachers on FFL who
think they're the only person on the planet to
have know how to sew or weave a basket.
I didn't say that did I. Of yoga enthusiasts posting on the web, in
general FFLer's show the least knowledge of the field. It speaks
volumes on how limited the teaching was (but then read what I say below).
ROTFLOL!!!
1. sUtra n. (accord. to g. %{ardhacA7di} also m.;
fr. %{siv}, 'to sew'...
http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/cgi-bin/tamil/recherche/
You'll find sutra defined as thread about everywhere else on the
web. You found a Tamil lexicon. In fact I believe that MMY may have
defined it in his version of the Gita. A friend once said about folks
on FFL is they don't even seem to know the stuff that Maharishi talked
about in the Gita!
Saraswati worship can give rise to intellectual masturbation, enough so
that yogis reading FFL can often skip their evening eye rolling asanas. :-D
[FairfieldLife] Re: The experience of Super Radiance
Hahahahaha! I appreciate this! Hahahahaha! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@... wrote: For those who aren't sidhas you can't appreciate just what the Maharishi Effect is like. This video will give you some cues. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQXVHITd1N4
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The experience of Super Radiance
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 7:14 PM, obbajeeba no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Hahahahaha! I appreciate this! Hahahahaha! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@... wrote: For those who aren't sidhas you can't appreciate just what the Maharishi Effect is like. This video will give you some cues. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQXVHITd1N4 Well then why don't you try my sutra sometime? We were told to d/c it on the 7,000 course but I do practice it every now and then. What you do is perform samyama on Beetlejuice.I've managed to have our dearly departed guru appeared in front of me a few times. Performing this sutra.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Laws Of Nature Of Cafe Writing
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: Yesterday I was a little clever. The daughter and I stopped in for a quick lunch at Ruby Tuesdays. They've got a great crab cake appetizer and a great salad bar. Salad bar is $2.99 with anything ordered, otherwise it's $8.99. We ordered one crab cake and one salad bar, and that server was watching me like a hawk making sure I wasn't going to partake of that salad bar. (It was for my daughter). I asked for the bill early, gave him a generous tip (well over 20%), and then got an extra serving or two at the salad bar which I ate without guilt. So you are a thief who feels good about himself by making the server an accomplice and teaching your daughter its ok to be a sneak-thief. Nice, really really nice Lurk.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Do nothing and accomplish everything.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: * * Hmm. Depends on how you define small self surrounded by Big Self, I suppose. If one identifies with a small self being Witnessed by a separate big Self, I would probably call that CC. When the small self -- and even the separate Witness itself, and indeed all sense of duality or separation or spacetime distinction or progress whatsoever -- melts into the ever-present THAT, and it is Self-evident that THAT Alone ever IS, was, and shall BE, THAT Awakening would probably be called Brahman * * But again, this is not a static state, as small-selves or I-particles constantly emerge from THAT-US and get our attention with specific need/desire-vectors, and remain in orbit until we give them what they need, whereupon they again surrender into Us. So this small self-Big Self tension and resolution continues over and over, playing out the progress from ignorance through C.C., G.C., and U.C. for each small self, again and again, even in so-called Brahman.
Re: [FairfieldLife] 'As the Republicans 'Crucify' Obama'... [1 Attachment]
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Robert babajii...@yahoo.com wrote: 'They' crucify the rest of us as well...! Standing in the way of anything he tries to do, sabotaging his every move... Only the light of pure consciousness can see us through... J.G.D. And what did the Repubs try to do to JDR, one of the true Democrats of our time?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Mantra Meditation - for Buck
Dear Empty, that's a substantial difference. I wish now I would have known the difference years ago. One of the lady saints coming through some years ago pointed that out too. The difference was like the light came on. Thanks for the clarification between TM process and also may be sitting with the silence. -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote: Besides the difference in mantra-s, there is a difference in how the two meditations are done. In Sahaj practice, the understanding is that the mantra doesn't go anywhere so we don't actually lose the mantra. Because we were introduced to the mantra at initiation, it is naturally recognized and recollected when we sit down to meditate. However, if during meditation our attention has been absorbed in thoughts for a while without realizing it, then we just return to the mantra by recognizing it again. If we find our attention aware of thoughts occurring within the mind, that in itself, does not constitute a reason or a need to reintroduce the mantra. Just to rest in silent awareness, although there is no activity or object reference, is in itself meditation because awareness is fundamental while the mind is not. Or as SSRS has said, although you cannot know awareness, because it is not an object, you don't need to do so because you are that very awareness itself prior to mind and to the mind's experiences, whether objective or subjective. .. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: The Power of Mantra Contrary to public misinformation, techniques like Transcendental Meditation or Sahaj Samadhi are not based on repetition. They utilize a much subtler science. Om, so are Transcendental Meditation and Sahaj Samadhi effectively the same? The similar practice? Just wondering. Anyone learned both? Anyone here taught both? -B vibrations of consciousness. Mantra carries the mind to the silence that was there before God said, Let there be light. In Sanskrit, mantra means vehicle for the mind: manas - mind, tra - vehicle. Tra is the root of our English suffix, tron. Electrons carry electricity. Positrons carry positivity. Mantras carry mind to its source.
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[FairfieldLife] Gaddafi takes refuge in the Golden Dome in Fairfield, IA
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2089702,00.html?hpt=hp_t1 In exchange for working with David Lynch's group, Qaddafi is granted refuge in the Golden Dome. He says he hates the vegetarian food.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Mantra Meditation - for Buck
There is an awareness that becomes established, and then, contemplation of awareness itself, and it's infinite value, becomes the meditation...mantra and sutra become more or less redundant... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Dear Empty, that's a substantial difference. I wish now I would have known the difference years ago. One of the lady saints coming through some years ago pointed that out too. The difference was like the light came on. Thanks for the clarification between TM process and also may be sitting with the silence. -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote: Besides the difference in mantra-s, there is a difference in how the two meditations are done. In Sahaj practice, the understanding is that the mantra doesn't go anywhere so we don't actually lose the mantra. Because we were introduced to the mantra at initiation, it is naturally recognized and recollected when we sit down to meditate. However, if during meditation our attention has been absorbed in thoughts for a while without realizing it, then we just return to the mantra by recognizing it again. If we find our attention aware of thoughts occurring within the mind, that in itself, does not constitute a reason or a need to reintroduce the mantra. Just to rest in silent awareness, although there is no activity or object reference, is in itself meditation because awareness is fundamental while the mind is not. Or as SSRS has said, although you cannot know awareness, because it is not an object, you don't need to do so because you are that very awareness itself prior to mind and to the mind's experiences, whether objective or subjective. .. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: The Power of Mantra Contrary to public misinformation, techniques like Transcendental Meditation or Sahaj Samadhi are not based on repetition. They utilize a much subtler science. Om, so are Transcendental Meditation and Sahaj Samadhi effectively the same? The similar practice? Just wondering. Anyone learned both? Anyone here taught both? -B vibrations of consciousness. Mantra carries the mind to the silence that was there before God said, Let there be light. In Sanskrit, mantra means vehicle for the mind: manas - mind, tra - vehicle. Tra is the root of our English suffix, tron. Electrons carry electricity. Positrons carry positivity. Mantras carry mind to its source.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Laws Of Nature Of Cafe Writing
On Aug 21, 2011, at 6:25 PM, azgrey wrote: Yesterday I was a little clever. The daughter and I stopped in for a quick lunch at Ruby Tuesdays. They've got a great crab cake appetizer and a great salad bar. Salad bar is $2.99 with anything ordered, otherwise it's $8.99. We ordered one crab cake and one salad bar, and that server was watching me like a hawk making sure I wasn't going to partake of that salad bar. (It was for my daughter). I asked for the bill early, gave him a generous tip (well over 20%), and then got an extra serving or two at the salad bar which I ate without guilt. So you are a thief who feels good about himself by making the server an accomplice and teaching your daughter its ok to be a sneak-thief. Nice, really really nice Lurk. That was my thought too~~basically cheating the restaurant and then feeling OK about it. No guilt? How nice. Not to mention that the extra tip money could have gone towards buying the salad bar honestly. Sal
[FairfieldLife] 'Being ~Becoming'...
Maharishi talks about this experience being the result of TM and the practice of sanyama... Being become established in the awareness... Then according to the bubble diagram, you exist at the bottom of the diagram, where the awareness is infinite, with no qualities other than awarness... Then, you begin to pick up activity, from the most subtle level, which is 'bubbling up' from 'Being'... When you become aware of 'Being~Becoming' then the impulse has the full support of being behind it, and will be 'in tune with all the laws of nature... Because awarness of this most subtle field, exposes on to the infinite value of consciousness, this effects the field of consiousness itself in a universal way... This is the basis of the ME in that when one experiences the univeral field, it enlivens the field itself, so everyone is effected by this effect... There is no other way to effect the whole, other than to touch the essence of the whole in the field of pure consiousness...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Definition of a suutra?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: [...] You'll find sutra defined as thread about everywhere else on the web. You found a Tamil lexicon. In fact I believe that MMY may have defined it in his version of the Gita. A friend once said about folks on FFL is they don't even seem to know the stuff that Maharishi talked about in the Gita! Why do you think that people who practice samyama on sutras from the Yoga Sutras, don't know what sutra means? L
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Definition of a suutra?
On 08/21/2011 07:00 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@... wrote: [...] You'll find sutra defined as thread about everywhere else on the web. You found a Tamil lexicon. In fact I believe that MMY may have defined it in his version of the Gita. A friend once said about folks on FFL is they don't even seem to know the stuff that Maharishi talked about in the Gita! Why do you think that people who practice samyama on sutras from the Yoga Sutras, don't know what sutra means? L Because they were not given much background, just the techniques.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Being ~Becoming'...
So, meditation becomes more subtle as one imbibes pure consciousness, into the awareness... Therefore, it becomes just the 'Intention' to meditate, that one percieves the mantra coming forth from 'Being Itself'... Also, we just have the intention to do sutra, and sutra appears coming 'bubbling forth' from being... It's like meditation in terms of the 'Bubble Diagram' becomes reversed, in a way, and you pick up the mantra, or the sutra, bubbling up from infinite being itself, your own expansive consciousness, your own 'Big Self'... Little by little this expansive awarness, starts to be experienceed in the heart area, and then it becomes a vibration of expanding love...and refined intuition, and you are not dependent on the mind and intellect so much, but more with the feeling and expanded awareness of being not only of the 'mind' but more and more of the 'heart'... You begin to feel a sense in the heart, of the 'I Am'...and then an expanded feeling of I-I in the heart... The feeling of your own infinite self being identical to the 'other's infinite self... This begins the 'Knowledge Atma' or 'Soul'... And the beginning of 'Unity Consciousness'... This is what M calls the 'Science of Being'.. Learning how to firstly establish being in the awarenss, And then, know how remain with being and just 'allow' mantra or sutra top come, by intention... Then, it becomes more a matter of how to know in an infinite way, how to allow an intention to manifest itself.. Thus, we learn how to create from 'Inside Out'... We stay with being and allow the intention to rise with the awareness of being behind it... It this way, thoughts, intellect, feelings, intuitions, perceptions all have the value of the 'Infinite Self' of being behind so the seed of any idea will be 'pure' in that instead of being an expression of ego, it become as expression of 'Universal Being'... This is the difference between action in terms of ego, and action in terms of Being... Then we feel that we are not acting so much, but that being is pulling together things for us, in a magnetic/electrical way, to bring things into manifestation... This is what Jesus meant, when he said: 'ASK and you shal RECIEVE' J.G.D. ROBERT --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@... wrote: Maharishi talks about this experience being the result of TM and the practice of sanyama... Being become established in the awareness... Then according to the bubble diagram, you exist at the bottom of the diagram, where the awareness is infinite, with no qualities other than awarness... Then, you begin to pick up activity, from the most subtle level, which is 'bubbling up' from 'Being'... When you become aware of 'Being~Becoming' then the impulse has the full support of being behind it, and will be 'in tune with all the laws of nature... Because awarness of this most subtle field, exposes on to the infinite value of consciousness, this effects the field of consiousness itself in a universal way... This is the basis of the ME in that when one experiences the univeral field, it enlivens the field itself, so everyone is effected by this effect... There is no other way to effect the whole, other than to touch the essence of the whole in the field of pure consiousness...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Definition of a suutra?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 08/21/2011 07:00 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@ wrote: [...] You'll find sutra defined as thread about everywhere else on the web. You found a Tamil lexicon. In fact I believe that MMY may have defined it in his version of the Gita. A friend once said about folks on FFL is they don't even seem to know the stuff that Maharishi talked about in the Gita! Why do you think that people who practice samyama on sutras from the Yoga Sutras, don't know what sutra means? L Because they were not given much background, just the techniques. Really? I guess I missed that gap in my training. L.
[FairfieldLife] 'Taste of Utopia Course'and 'Able Archer 83' (1983-84)
This was going on during the 'Taste of Utopia Course' in 1983-84... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83
[FairfieldLife] Re: Definition of a suutra?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: On 08/21/2011 07:00 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@ wrote: [...] You'll find sutra defined as thread about everywhere else on the web. You found a Tamil lexicon. In fact I believe that MMY may have defined it in his version of the Gita. A friend once said about folks on FFL is they don't even seem to know the stuff that Maharishi talked about in the Gita! Why do you think that people who practice samyama on sutras from the Yoga Sutras, don't know what sutra means? Because they were not given much background, just the techniques. Really? I guess I missed that gap in my training. No gap. We got more than enough background to know what sutra means--both literally and contextually--and of course instruction in the techniques used the term constantly. You couldn't *not* know what it meant. No idea why Bhairitu is pursuing this; he's just wrong.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Laws Of Nature Of Cafe Writing
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@ wrote: Yesterday I was a little clever. The daughter and I stopped in for a quick lunch at Ruby Tuesdays. They've got a great crab cake appetizer and a great salad bar. Salad bar is $2.99 with anything ordered, otherwise it's $8.99. We ordered one crab cake and one salad bar, and that server was watching me like a hawk making sure I wasn't going to partake of that salad bar. (It was for my daughter). I asked for the bill early, gave him a generous tip (well over 20%), and then got an extra serving or two at the salad bar which I ate without guilt. So you are a thief who feels good about himself by making the server an accomplice and teaching your daughter its ok to be a sneak-thief. Nice, really really nice Lurk. Sad, but true. I guess it was like last night, when at the last minute we purchased $40.00 tickets for Katy Perry, way up high, and then found some seats lower down. I own up to up it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Definition of a suutra?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: [...] Why do you think that people who practice samyama on sutras from the Yoga Sutras, don't know what sutra means? Because they were not given much background, just the techniques. Really? I guess I missed that gap in my training. No gap. We got more than enough background to know what sutra means--both literally and contextually--and of course instruction in the techniques used the term constantly. You couldn't *not* know what it meant. No idea why Bhairitu is pursuing this; he's just wrong. I have a strange sense of humor. Old Friend: I thought you were dead! Me: I must have missed the memo. L
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Laws Of Nature Of Cafe Writing
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@... wrote: On Aug 21, 2011, at 6:25 PM, azgrey wrote: Yesterday I was a little clever. The daughter and I stopped in for a quick lunch at Ruby Tuesdays. They've got a great crab cake appetizer and a great salad bar. Salad bar is $2.99 with anything ordered, otherwise it's $8.99. We ordered one crab cake and one salad bar, and that server was watching me like a hawk making sure I wasn't going to partake of that salad bar. (It was for my daughter). I asked for the bill early, gave him a generous tip (well over 20%), and then got an extra serving or two at the salad bar which I ate without guilt. So you are a thief who feels good about himself by making the server an accomplice and teaching your daughter its ok to be a sneak-thief. Nice, really really nice Lurk. That was my thought too~~basically cheating the restaurant and then feeling OK about it. No guilt? How nice. Not to mention that the extra tip money could have gone towards buying the salad bar honestly. I will not try to justify my actions. I was not willing to pay $9.00 for an extra plate of green salad, and a half plate of waldorf salad. I'm like that, for better or worse.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Definition of a suutra?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: [...] Why do you think that people who practice samyama on sutras from the Yoga Sutras, don't know what sutra means? Because they were not given much background, just the techniques. Really? I guess I missed that gap in my training. No gap. We got more than enough background to know what sutra means--both literally and contextually--and of course instruction in the techniques used the term constantly. You couldn't *not* know what it meant. No idea why Bhairitu is pursuing this; he's just wrong. I have a strange sense of humor. Old Friend: I thought you were dead! Me: I must have missed the memo. Heh. I know what you meant. Was just backing you up.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Mantra Meditation - for Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote: This explanation conflates the difference between mind/consciousness (citta) and awareness (cit) or, if you prefer, between drishti-matra and buddhi. Not really. Pure consciousness and pure awareness are synonymous in TM lingo. Awareness is prior to consciousness whether that consciousness is pure or dominated by vritti-s. An act of noticing is an activity of mind/consciousness, while awareness is definitional of what we are. Awareness is independent of the inward or outward stroke of the mind/consciousness and of buddhi-sattva. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: As everyone knows, this is counter to TM instruction. In other words, by the time you notice you are in pure consciousness during TM, you are actually out of it. Deciding to remain in this quiet state is impossible because the quiet state simply cannot be noticed while you are in it, so all you are doing is detracting from the *process* that is TM. Pure consciousness is totally unimportant during TM. It is the process of the inward stroke of meditation (decreasing mental activity) followed by the outer stroke that matters. Some period of inactivity at the transition between inward and outward is totally unimportant because in order to note that you are in that state of inactivity requires that the mind be active enough to note something in the first place. L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote: Besides the difference in mantra-s, there is a difference in how the two meditations are done. In Sahaj practice, the understanding is that the mantra doesn't go anywhere so we don't actually lose the mantra. Because we were introduced to the mantra at initiation, it is naturally recognized and recollected when we sit down to meditate. However, if during meditation our attention has been absorbed in thoughts for a while without realizing it, then we just return to the mantra by recognizing it again. If we find our attention aware of thoughts occurring within the mind, that in itself, does not constitute a reason or a need to reintroduce the mantra. Just to rest in silent awareness, although there is no activity or object reference, is in itself meditation because awareness is fundamental while the mind is not. Or as SSRS has said, although you cannot know awareness, because it is not an object, you don't need to do so because you are that very awareness itself prior to mind and to the mind's experiences, whether objective or subjective. ��������������������.. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: The Power of Mantra Contrary to public misinformation, techniques like Transcendental Meditation or Sahaj Samadhi are not based on repetition. They utilize a much subtler science. Om, so are Transcendental Meditation and Sahaj Samadhi effectively the same? The similar practice? Just wondering. Anyone learned both? Anyone here taught both? -B vibrations of consciousness. Mantra carries the mind to the silence that was there before God said, Let there be light. In Sanskrit, mantra means vehicle for the mind: manas - mind, tra - vehicle. Tra is the root of our English suffix, tron. Electrons carry electricity. Positrons carry positivity. Mantras carry mind to its source.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Huntsman 2.0 - Could Huntsman save the day for the GOP?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@... wrote: Huntsman 2.0 Thomas Lane | Talking Points Memo | August 21, 2011 Poll after poll shows that despite President Obama's sinking numbers he still fares well against virtually all his major GOP opponents. Too funny. The do.rk's callout is the *least* significant point in this article, which is about Huntsman and the GOP's search for a savior. They're looking for a serious candidate because Obama's reelection seems like much less of a sure thing than it did a few months ago. -- What do you make of the new hard-hittin', tough-tweetin' Jon Huntsman http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/jon-huntsman-takes-on-the-go\ p-field-and-president-obamas-leadership.php?ref=fpa ? We ran a piece http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/is-he-even-trying-huntsmans-\ tweets-almost-seem-designed-to-alienate-the-gop-base.php on Friday asking whether the former Utah governor and Obama-appointed ambassador to China was even trying to win the nomination any more. Since then numerous emails have come in from readers who think he's making a long play for the nomination in 2016. That's certainly a reasonable view. However, it's possible there's something else at work here, too. The Republican establishment is faced with something of a quandary right now. Even just a few months ago, the big money and major power-brokers thought 2012 was going to be unwinnable. It was widely believed that the economy would slowly pick up, and by November of next year President Obama would be able to take the credit for that and walk to re-election. This likely prompted the more credible GOP candidates, such as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, to decide to sit out the coming election and wait for 2016. By and large the GOP establishment seemed happy enough to send out the political equivalent of cannon-fodder that would be torn apart in the No Man's Land of 2012. However, the sudden threat of a double-dip recession means this election suddenly looks winnable for the Republicans... But only if they have the right candidate. Poll http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/cnn-poll-the-only-goper-who-\ can-beat-obama-isnot-running.php after poll http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/obama-surges-to-lead-against\ -generic-republican.php shows that despite President Obama's sinking numbers he still fares well against virtually all his major GOP opponents. Presumably this is maddening for the Republican establishment. All of a sudden what they need is a moderate savior who's not tarnished by either extreme flip-flopping or by outrageous statements against, say, the Federal Reserve http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/perry-calls-bernanke-policie\ s-almost-treasonous.php and the scientific process http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/perry-responds-to-question-a\ bout-creationism-earth-is-pretty-old-video.php . Hence the current conservative calls in some quarters http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/big-names-encourage-paul-ryan-run_5\ 90322.html for Rep. Paul Ryan and the brief flutter earlier this week over rumors of a Christie run http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/report-chris-christie-explor\ ing-presidential-run.php . This must be infuriating for Huntsman; as far as he must be concerned, the party already has its moderate savior and he's already in the race. Indeed, it's him. But the problem Huntsman faces is exactly that he is already in the race. Unlike Christie or Ryan there are now real polls for Huntsman, and they show him failing to catch alight. If he was entering the fray right now he'd figuratively be wearing a halo and would be suffused by a glowing ethereal light while angels flutter around him, plucking away at harps. But the nature of the nominating process meant that in order to get a viable campaign on the ground, he had to enter a few months ago, before there was this great GOP thirst for a candidate just like him. Having gotten in at that stage, now the numbers are in as well, and the power-brokers can dismiss him while casting their eyes around for a candidate whose halo has not been tarnished by the grime of poor poll numbers. That could well be the significance behind this new combative Huntsman; he's indicating to the types of people pining after Christie or Ryan -- and lamenting that they don't have much time to set up a campaign on the ground -- that there is already an Independent-friendly candidate right under their noses. These new moves are intended to reboot his campaign into Huntsman 2.0. At the very least it should guarantee he at least gets asked some proper questions in the next GOP debate. It's a tough strategy as it does indeed involve alienating the Tea Party-leaning sections of the base. But right now it seems the only strategy that's left.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Laws Of Nature Of Cafe Writing
Subjective ethics...the bane of humanity. Alright, alright! I admit it..I purchased my children ski lift tickets at the child rate (when they were just a tad over the age limit, or maybe it was a year or so) by attesting honestly to the fact they were under 12 (or was it 10) and maybe I did this once (but only once) at the movie theatre. Om namah shivaya --- On Sun, 8/21/11, seventhray1 steve.sun...@sbcglobal.net wrote: From: seventhray1 steve.sun...@sbcglobal.net Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Laws Of Nature Of Cafe Writing To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, August 21, 2011, 8:04 PM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@... wrote: On Aug 21, 2011, at 6:25 PM, azgrey wrote: Yesterday I was a little clever. The daughter and I stopped in for a quick lunch at Ruby Tuesdays. They've got a great crab cake appetizer and a great salad bar. Salad bar is $2.99 with anything ordered, otherwise it's $8.99. We ordered one crab cake and one salad bar, and that server was watching me like a hawk making sure I wasn't going to partake of that salad bar. (It was for my daughter). I asked for the bill early, gave him a generous tip (well over 20%), and then got an extra serving or two at the salad bar which I ate without guilt. So you are a thief who feels good about himself by making the server an accomplice and teaching your daughter its ok to be a sneak-thief. Nice, really really nice Lurk. That was my thought too~~basically cheating the restaurant and then feeling OK about it. No guilt? How nice. Not to mention that the extra tip money could have gone towards buying the salad bar honestly. I will not try to justify my actions. I was not willing to pay $9.00 for an extra plate of green salad, and a half plate of waldorf salad. I'm like that, for better or worse.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Iowa State Fair
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 08/21/2011 02:37 PM, raunchydog wrote: The Iowa State Fair has pushed the limit on what you can fry on a stick. This year, Fried Butter on a Stick made its debut. Not worth the calories that would go directly to my ass. Huffpo reported this artery clogging delicacy is quite yummy. Some things just don't belong on a stick. I had a foot-long brat on a BUN. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/11/fried-butter-stick-iowa-state-fair_n_924768.html I captured a flavor of the Iowa State Fair for FFLife on my Flip video camera yesterday. The software in right in the camera...very cool. 1:58 Movie: Flip has a magic movie function. http://tinyurl.com/3r3gl2l 3:25 Movie: Flip video mixed with still shots. http://tinyurl.com/3vf2em6 Photos: Check out the famous butter cow. http://tinyurl.com/3pdy7dv Here's the list of foods on-a-stick as of Fair 2011 Fried Butter on-a-stick Peanut Butter Jelly on-a-stick Chocolate Covered Fried Ice Cream on-a-stick Cheesecake on-a-stick Fair Square Chocolate-covered tiramisu on-a-stick Turtle mousse bar on-a-stick Twinkie log on-a-stick (frozen Twinkie dipped in white chocolate and rolled in cashews) Octodog (hotdog in the shape of an octopus) Chocolate-dipped cake on-a-stick Buffalo chicken on-a-stick Chocolate-covered peanut butter round on-a-stick Chocolate-covered key lime round on-a-stick Carmellows on-a-stick Pretzel rods dipped in caramel or chocolate Pickle on-a-stick Pork chop on-a-stick Corn dog Cheese on-a-stick Cajun chicken on-a-stick Sesame chicken on-a-stick Carmel apple German sausage on-a-stick Teriyaki beef on-a-stick Corn on the cob on-a-stick Cotton candy Veggie dog on-a-stick Turkey drumstick Nutty bar Fried pickle on-a-stick Hot bologna on-a-stick Shrimp on-a-stick Chicken on-a-stick Monkey Tails (chocolate covered banana on-a-stick) Honey on-a-stick Ice cream Wonder Bar Deep fried Snickers bar on-a-stick Deep fried Milky Way bar on-a-stick Deep fried Twinkie on-a-stick Lamb on-a-stick Meatballs on-a-stick Deep fried hoho on-a-stick Funtastick Pork on-a-stick Dutch letters on-a-stick Deep fried hot dog on-a-stick Chocolate covered cheesecake on-a-stick Pineapple on-a-stick (Fresh pineapple dipped in funnel cake batter and deep fried) Chicken lips on-a-stick (breaded chicken breast smothered with hot sauce, served with blue cheese dressing). Cornbrat on-a-stick (bratwurst dipped in corndog batter) Chocolate covered Ice cream cookie sandwich on-a-stick Rock candy on-a-stick Salad on-a-stick Hard-boiled egg on-a-stick Nice work! Guess how much my first HD camera which did only 720p cost me back in 2003? $3500 (they threw in a JVC HD VCR). Now you can get them for $100 or less and they take better video. Thanks, Bhairitu. Love the Flip. I'm fiddling with Windows Movie Maker to jazz up my slide show. I want to build a better music library for background music. I updated iTunes and found out the good stuff is way too expensive and the free stuff linked to internet radio, sucks. I downloaded some iTune radio files but Windows movie maker didn't recognize it. In a last ditch effort I tried to figure out how to download music from YouTube. I Googled download YouTube on Mp3 and linked to a guy screaming Developer. WTF? I'm really a novice at this. Any suggestions?
